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I feel like in today’s day and age everyone is being prescribed with ADHD, I know at least half of my grade ‘has’ this and most of them don’t really have it. A lot of them had been prescribed with this in elementary school when really it was just everyone acting like they’re supposed to as a child. I know my best friend was told her and her two other siblings had it as a child but they really didn’t and now they’re perfectly fine.
I know in my school people get prescribed with this illness but really they just go along and sell their pills. The kid doesn't take his medication but still they act like a normal everyday student you would never know he is being prescribed with these medicines or that he even needs any type of pills like this.

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