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As every one else said, but I will add a couple of notes.

ADD is part of who I am its just not very compatible with current work environments. I don't like to feel drugged all the time and I know that i'm ok with out being medicated.

I have developed sufficient coping skills as an adult to enable me to choose when I need to be medicated and when I don't.

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I just wanted to thank you for still answering on this thread. Your sharing of your experiences is very much welcome, I've only been on Ritalin for over a month and already feel exactly as you describe it. Still, I'm asking myself if you couldn't also harm your wiring by having this on/off thing going on (I'm currently on 30mg Ritalin LA which presumably is a rather high dosage). I've always been more interested into computers so this brain thing is kind of new to me - a blacker kind of box than it already is so to say :)

I would have been kicked out of school with out ritalin so there wasn't much option when I started taking it at 9. You have to judge for yourself as an adult if the costs out weight the risks.

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