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The fact that bad shit is normalized isn't a great argument in this instance.
you missed the point. children can give informed consent to things that might prove harmful down the line, like ballet.
not so much for ADHD meds, because parents often force these on them to make them compliant and as punishment.
there is no medication without side effects. ADHD meds can have bad consequences, but we should still allow people to take them based on informed consent. apply the same logic to kids on HRT.
That sentence is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. Why do you believe this?
I don't know about them, they may have personal experience, but there was definitely a period in the 90s and 2000s when doctors were prescribing Ritalin as freely as opioids and it was advertised by some as a treatment for hyperactive kids. Kids won't sit still in class? Just pop a pill and watch them become model students!
Ok, so.. you know that happens when you give a normal child a stimulant? The same thing that happens to adults.
If you give a kid Ritalin and they don't bounce off the walls, that's a pretty good indicator they're ADHD and you made the right choice.
I didn't even know that Ritalin was a stimulant. It makes sense as an ADHD med that it would be, but I just knew how easily kids were buying it at school (even middle school, not just high school) because it seemed like practically anyone could get a prescription for it.