Hayes brown: I have ADHD. America's Adderall shortage isn't being treated like the crisis it is.
, and I had diagnosed myself as smart but lazy, squandering the potential reflected in my test scores. But my teacher did something I didn’t expect, which most likely altered the course of my life: He took me seriously.fit with an ADHD diagnosis. Though I wasn’t formally diagnosed at the time, he and his co-teacher, who taught history, would give me extra time to turn in papers both that year and when I had them again my senior year.
For over half a year now, patients around the country have struggled to fill their Adderall prescriptions, threatening to topple the structures ADHD patients have built up to support themselves. It has been four years since I received my ADHD diagnosis from a psychiatrist. Only when I announced it on Facebook did my former teacher relay his side of that story to me. In the years since, I’ve takenalmost every day at varying dosages to help me function in a society in which any lack of productivity is seen as a moral failing. Before then, I’d been decent enough at most of the jobs I’d held, terrible at others.
Even during the depths of the pandemic, I was fortunate to retain access to my prescription. It’s only lately that things are no longer quite so certain. For over half a year now, patients around the country have, threatening to topple the structures ADHD patients have built up to support themselves.
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