Please don't gut comments like this—it's not fair to the users who replied, nor to readers who can no longer follow the thread.
I realize that internet discussions can be annoying and everyone goes on tilt sometimes, but you broke the site guidelines quite badly in this thread (as did others). If it were a one-off, I wouldn't mention this, but you've broken the guidelines in other places too—for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415931. We have to ban accounts that attack other users—let alone attacking kids who are sharing their work on the site. That was extremely nasty of you. Please don't do that again.
Your comments are mostly just fine and I don't want to ban you, so if you'd If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
Let’s assume you’re right and it definitely “leads to A boost in all of the neuro pathways that are physiologically underdeveloped”. Can we think about the other side effects of amphetamine on a child? Nevermind sleep, malnutrition, overstimulating nervous system, cardiovascular damage (from nih, please search). You are physically and permanently changing your child's brain chemistry, or “who they are”. I’m not saying this should never ever be done, but it should be considered a very extreme and desperate solution.
You know what's a really ADHD oppositional Defiant disorder thing? I was diagnosed when I was two and all of this rapid new diagnosis and people wanting to be diagnosed now is making me want to not be diagnosed anymore extremely badly. I can't help it. It's my gut impulse reaction to not want to be associated with this thing that everyone wants to be associated with. It's annoying. ( The it's annoying part is my reaction ( Meaning that I am annoyed that this is my reaction. ), not the fact that others are being diagnosed by the way. )
I'm glad a majority of people are actually getting help with this. Don't get me wrong. But it's just something I've noticed inside my head since this has been going on and becoming more and more of a thing over the past 5 years.
Edit: Sure love getting downvoted because I'm speaking about my own subjective experience in life as of recently. You think I don't know with 36 years of experience about my own mental facilities and I'm not growing every single day of my life learning more about myself. I know ADHD isn't a oppositional defiant disorder, but I know what I'm saying, okay?
ADHD and oppositional Defiant disorder are not quite the same thing. The former is a lot more common than the latter. Sure they could be comorbid in some cases…
My take on this: You're absolutely allowed to speak on your experience, but you should also take the feedback at face value and try to figure out whether it's useful or not. Plenty of feedback here on HN is good, but of course there's also plenty that misses the mark.
That being said, an ADHD diagnosis at the age of 2 goes against all current best practices, so it might be good to revisit the subject and ask to be evaluated again.
Even in the likely case that it's confirmed, you might get additional support, advice or diagnoses that can help you in the future.
American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines does not permit diagnosis of ADHD before age 4. None of the commonly used assessments would apply to such a young age anyway.
Diagnosed when you were two? That doesn’t sound right. I’m assuming this was during the ritalin craze. I’m extremely curious what that test looked like, do you know?
No one will stop you from freshing up your diagnosis, even if it's just to figure how severe your symptoms are compared to those diagnosed at a later age.
Just like Autism, it's a wide spectrum, some are worse, some are mild, some cope a lot better or have to right support around them to function better.
Don't feel bad about it, make an OG ADHD or pepperridge farm remembers meme instead :-)
Chin up — this sentence doesn’t appear anywhere on the internet, as far as Google knows. There’s a good chance you just created something wholly original!
You know what's really funny? The best web browser that I've used on my M1 Mac Mini, with eight gigs of RAM And the smallest hard drive that they offered because it was the cheapest model, Microsoft Edge. Safari is neigh unusable now, and I refuse to touch anything that Mozilla makes because they are a horrible, stupid company these days. But I use Microsoft Edge on my Windows PC and I use Microsoft Edge on my Mac and I have zero issues. It's not memory hungry. It's perfect. The only thing I change is in the advanced configuration to disable the curved inner edges or rounded edges or whatever it's called.
I use this computer all day with the web browser open all day. I play media in it all day through the web browser and nothing ever really goes to swap like maybe 200 megabytes throughout a week. I could open up VS Code just fine Or Xcode just fine and do stuff in that at the same time.
While people are debating if eight gigs is bad or good or 16 gigs is bad or good, I'm just gonna sit here saving money because I don't need to buy a new device.
Disable seri and spotlight while you're at it too BTW. That helps a ton.
As far as I understand, the correct way to use an immutable operating system is to run containers or virtual machines on it and don't do anything with the base operating system.
Maybe if you need to go out of your way to install proprietary Nvidia drivers if they don't include it or something like that is the most you should do.
