Differentiating betweeen ADHD and Normal Childhood Behavior

I had all of these critera as a child. I am so glad they did not have this labeling system when I was a child. If I was stuck with a psychiatric label throughout my school years, I would never be as successful as I am today. Unfortunately it is not that way for my son who has inheirited my gift of creativity and also my distractablilty. He has been labeled throughout his school years. If I could have econmically have home schooled him I would have. The stigmatization from school officials and from the social workings at public school has had a tremendous negative impact on my son. Luckily I know better than to put him on some psycotropic medication that is in the same class as cocaine, or and SSRI that lead to hallucinations or worse suicide.

With teen depression and suicide on the rise, I wonder if a study will be done to connect the prescription connection.

There is a gread video that everyone must see. The best video on ADHD and medication I have ever seen. I wonder doctor what your opinion of this video would be

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3609599239524875493&q=The+Drugging+Of+Our+Children&hl=en

 I have a son who has many seasonal and food allergies that displays nearly every symptom of ADD/ADHD when he is in an allergic state. In fact his teacher in the first grade wanted to have him tested for a learning disability the second week of school  because he had such difficulty with focus and concentration. The school gave me an ADD/ADHD checklist to fill out and take to my Doctor and sure enough he met 98% of the criteria. I also started keeping a food diary and noticed that specific foods were triggering certain behavior patterns. When I really began to observe my son, he would display a typical Dr. Jeckyl-Mr. Hyde scenario. I decided to take my son to an allergist who confirmed that my son had many food and seasonal allergies. He prescribed my son allergy medicine that made a night and day difference in his ability to focus. He is now in fourth grade and still continues to struggle with allergies especially in the fall and spring. My son also plays many outdoor sports during these seasons and is impaired more behaviorly than physically. His symptoms are often exasserbated and his inability to focus and concentrate are magnified. It seems that allergy medicine among others has it's limits. My question to you is, why are allergies becoming more and more prevalent and why aren't they being taken into greater consideration as an attention disrupter?