I come from a bit of a different perspective here in that I started out taking Ritalin as a kid - I was probably 8 or 9 instead of in my teens. It was awesome.

I come from a bit of a different perspective here in that I started out taking Ritalin as a kid - I was probably 8 or 9 instead of in my teens. It was awesome. Ritalin showed me what it was like to be "normal". I took it for about a year and, for me, once I had seen "normal", I was able to just settle down. I still hyperfocused and was fidgety but I was able to recognize those times whereas, before Ritalin, I had not known that what I was doing was odd/different/good/bad.