> my friends taking them while we were growing up had pretty negative outcomes.

Or - hear me out - maybe severe ADHD, the kind that leads to diagnosis and treatment with stimulant medication at a very young age, is correlated with negative outcomes in general. You know, like a disability.

The number of people willing to believe - contrary to actual peer reviewed studies - that stimulant medication is harmful to people with ADHD, based on nothing more than a gut feeling, is astounding. People don't assume they can just intuit the proper treatment for other medical conditions, why do they think they can do that with mental health related issues?