No other country on Earth has bought this nonsense. We in the United States have to get back to reality. We as parents, teachers, mental health and medical professionals sculpture through our everyday nitty gritty, chipping away at the untrained child to create the academically, socially and culturally successful hard working adult. Children should learn to compensate for their specific deficiencies like all those renowned individuals listed at the beginning of this article instead of being administered a drug to temporarily eliminate the problem. Rather, we need to teach our children that everyone has limitations.
Losers make excuses, successful people surmount their obstacles.
No, we are not going to add Ritilin to our free lunch program and eliminate all our social problems. This is pure fantasy that makes a few people rich and famous while leaving many others poorer, disillusioned failures who are unable to function in the real world.