I had a very different experience. I was diagnosed late in life, and the struggles to do simple things would blow up my depression. This created massive amounts of anxiety, and that led to a rough time at home with my wife and daughter. I will never be able to fix the damage to my daughter, she is now riddled with anxiety from having parents that couldn't cope very well with life. Thankfully she is a brilliant kid, and now that we are older and wiser we can guide her a lot better with dealing with these issues.

Buy my third child is showing signs of ADHD, and I have nothing but compassion for him. I have no interest in OVER medicating him, and have made significant life changes so that I can take my younger children on as many outdoor activities as possible.

In short... overmedication might be an issue. Not having good life-coping skills might be an issue as well. But sensationalist headlines that let headline browsers reinforce their "ADHD doesn't exist" misconceptions can cause harm. Just because it's a recent discovery doesn't mean that it isn't real, and that we can just abandon these kids.