Paul Tough

And in fact, the young people I talked to saw this as much more of a kind of constant negotiation between them and their medication. A couple of the young people I talked to talked about, used the word sacrifice when they talked about their stimulant medication. They saw that there were benefits to it. They saw that it was going to help them in some significant way going forward in life.

But they didn't actually like the experience of taking them, often not at all. I mean, one of them said, I just hate taking it. You know, you first of all get this real rush. You feel like you're on top of the world. But then there's a real crash. And so he didn't love it, but he saw that in certain circumstances it was the right thing to do.

But they didn't actually like the experience of taking them, often not at all. I mean, one of them said, I just hate taking it. You know, you first of all get this real rush. You feel like you're on top of the world. But then there's a real crash. And so he didn't love it, but he saw that in certain circumstances it was the right thing to do.

But they didn't actually like the experience of taking them, often not at all. I mean, one of them said, I just hate taking it. You know, you first of all get this real rush. You feel like you're on top of the world. But then there's a real crash. And so he didn't love it, but he saw that in certain circumstances it was the right thing to do.

And that's what I heard from a lot of kids, that they had gotten to the point where they knew what this medication would make them feel like. And rather than think of it as, say, diabetes medication, something you've got to take every day in order to survive, it was much more situational. It was something that they would take at certain times and certain moments and then other times not take.

And that's what I heard from a lot of kids, that they had gotten to the point where they knew what this medication would make them feel like. And rather than think of it as, say, diabetes medication, something you've got to take every day in order to survive, it was much more situational. It was something that they would take at certain times and certain moments and then other times not take.

And that's what I heard from a lot of kids, that they had gotten to the point where they knew what this medication would make them feel like. And rather than think of it as, say, diabetes medication, something you've got to take every day in order to survive, it was much more situational. It was something that they would take at certain times and certain moments and then other times not take.

Yeah, that was something that I heard from a lot of people, that their sort of love of life, their sense of humor, that a lot of that would change when they were on this medication. That they were, you know, at lunch, they were not the happy social person that they had been. One of them said, you know, it's not like I'm unhappy. It's just like I'm kind of flat.

Yeah, that was something that I heard from a lot of people, that their sort of love of life, their sense of humor, that a lot of that would change when they were on this medication. That they were, you know, at lunch, they were not the happy social person that they had been. One of them said, you know, it's not like I'm unhappy. It's just like I'm kind of flat.

Yeah, that was something that I heard from a lot of people, that their sort of love of life, their sense of humor, that a lot of that would change when they were on this medication. That they were, you know, at lunch, they were not the happy social person that they had been. One of them said, you know, it's not like I'm unhappy. It's just like I'm kind of flat.

There was one girl who I spoke to, I didn't include in the article. who talked about how it did sort of suppress her emotions. And she said that she had been having this day a couple of days before I spoke to her when her friends were going off to college and she wanted to say goodbye to them all.

There was one girl who I spoke to, I didn't include in the article. who talked about how it did sort of suppress her emotions. And she said that she had been having this day a couple of days before I spoke to her when her friends were going off to college and she wanted to say goodbye to them all.

There was one girl who I spoke to, I didn't include in the article. who talked about how it did sort of suppress her emotions. And she said that she had been having this day a couple of days before I spoke to her when her friends were going off to college and she wanted to say goodbye to them all.

And she decided that day not to take her medication because she wanted to feel, she wanted to have this emotional connection. And she knew that if she was on the medication, she just would feel more flat.

And she decided that day not to take her medication because she wanted to feel, she wanted to have this emotional connection. And she knew that if she was on the medication, she just would feel more flat.

And she decided that day not to take her medication because she wanted to feel, she wanted to have this emotional connection. And she knew that if she was on the medication, she just would feel more flat.

Well, I think this is where this question gets really interesting to me. And the person who I think is sort of leading the way, the researcher who's leading the way on this is a British researcher named Edmund Sunuga Bark, who has been studying ADHD for 35 years. And in the last few years, he has really started to change his approach. And I think that's been influential in the field.

Well, I think this is where this question gets really interesting to me. And the person who I think is sort of leading the way, the researcher who's leading the way on this is a British researcher named Edmund Sunuga Bark, who has been studying ADHD for 35 years. And in the last few years, he has really started to change his approach. And I think that's been influential in the field.

Well, I think this is where this question gets really interesting to me. And the person who I think is sort of leading the way, the researcher who's leading the way on this is a British researcher named Edmund Sunuga Bark, who has been studying ADHD for 35 years. And in the last few years, he has really started to change his approach. And I think that's been influential in the field.

So he talks about ADHD as not having any kind of natural cutting point where you can say this person has it and this person does not have it. but instead that ADHD symptoms exist on a continuum where almost everyone has some of these symptoms and that there are some for whom it is really an extreme problem, but there's not a natural cutting point.