Sue, I didn't say it wasn't real, just that it's over diagnosed (at least in kids). Teachers shouldn't be diagnosing people. Sorry, but you coop a kid up in class, yeah, they get antsy. Some more than others. The teacher should be just one person polled for the kids behavior, but so many times the pediatrician used that one report to diagnose them. And, oh yeah, forgets about needing 6 months of consistent symptoms to be a real diagnosis.

All I was telling the OP is to make sure he truly has it. Given his short post, we don't have enough information one way or another. Things like "stable job and family" lead away from a dx, and not able to organize a room doesn't necessarily mean ADD. He doesn't give enough examples (IMO) to decisively say whether he truly has the disease. If there are many examples that support ADD, so be it. But if he just can't organize well, I'd hate for him to start treatment for something he doesn't have.

Medications aren't benighn.