First off any medical advice from Huffpost is bullshit. Second the author here and the doc cited are pompous idiots. ADHD is real in children and adults and evidence of it can be seen with brain imaging (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170216105919.h...). Maybe they should conduct their work with some hard science/evidence instead of a checklist based on opinion? Ooooh.... and cry me a river, some big pharma company paid for a vacation for you and then took something you said and bent it to sell some drugs. Wake up! They sell drugs and so do you doc! I have ADHD and meds are the difference between total personal ruin and successfully running a company for me... and many other people. Every one of these clickbait bullshit articles that descend into moral arguments about ADHD do real harm to actual people with a quantifiable disability. Rule 1 of being kind that you teach a child is not to pick on people for things they can't change. I can't change that I have ADHD, other people with it cannot change that. We live in a world made by people with what the book "Delivered from Distraction" called "Attention Surplus Disorder." Supposedly the people who aren't sick are the ones who can sit still at a desk and then a cubicle their whole life doing what they are told. If that's being well I'm so glad I'm "sick."