Again, this is not about wanting to sit at a desk for hours every day. He's perfectly content to sit at a desk for hours every day, in front of his computer, an

Again, this is not about wanting to sit at a desk for hours every day. He's perfectly content to sit at a desk for hours every day, in front of his computer, and yet he'll have the same problems focusing on most things. Yes, the medication alters brain chemistry and one's "natural state". Do you honestly think that we have the science to realize that it alters brain chemistry, but we don't have the science to realize that some brain chemistries are drastically different from others? As for the whole "natural state" thing, let's not indulge in appeals to nature here. I forgot where I heard "dog poop and arsenic are both found in nature, but you wouldn't eat either", but it stuck with me. Schizophrenia is a "natural state" for some people. So is depression, or autism. Should we just leave everyone in their "natural state", because it's sacred for some reason? Hence my comment about glasses: some people are naturally short-sighted, too, but they enjoy being able to see better. Sure, school is an unnatural environment. Civilization is mostly an unnatural environment, too. What infuriates me, though, is that people who haven't had to walk in my son's shoes -- or mine, but his are more important -- have the audacity to judge from their position of ignorance and declare all the effort and care we went through "a crime that future generations will be rightly horrified by".