Anecdote: (first of all, my family and I still get along fine) I was a regular happy 8 year old child who wasn't very interested in hours of homework after scho

Anecdote: (first of all, my family and I still get along fine) I was a regular happy 8 year old child who wasn't very interested in hours of homework after school. My very academic family found this highly troubling and diagnosed me with ADD before any doctor did, as is fashion for some types. In the process of justifying this, I was given EEG scans, and quizzed by a strange man in a dark room with my parents, repeatedly asking "do you ever feel anxiety?" I did not know what this word meant, so they carefully explained to me what anxiety was, worrying about something you're not sure what the cause is, a feeling of dread, being scared of the unknown... I stumbled to say no, I have no experience of that, I can always tell what I worry about and am otherwise happy. The conversation continued essentially along the lines of "are you surrre? are you really sure?" Cue 8 years of meds which made me very anxious of failure in school and eliminated my appetite, causing my growth to nearly halt and fall within the bottom percentile of height and weight within a couple years, despite growing at a very average rate beforehand.