I'd encourage you not to be too hard on your parents when looking back. Very difficult decision to make and it took a lot of guts to buck the system and pressur

I'd encourage you not to be too hard on your parents when looking back. Very difficult decision to make and it took a lot of guts to buck the system and pressure to medicate; opting instead for behavioral approaches. Giving a growing brain a psychoactive drug is serious business. Also, of course, you are looking back with perfect hindsight. What if you'd had a serious adverse event, psychosis, or otherwise negative outcome? No one could have known, and that was a risk your parents had to weigh. In fact, your brain now is different than then. Perhaps your parents helped you to dodge a devastating bullet by withholding psychoactive drugs at a younger age.