A question for parents of ADHD/ADD children?

I am writing a feature on the Indigo children movement http://www.starchild.co.za/what.html and would love to hear some opinions of parents with ADHD, ADD or any other behavioural spectrum (ie Aspergers etc).
There is a theory that many children are misdiagnosed with these conditions and that some in fact fall into the Indigo camp and shouldn't be medicated.
Some of the more open schools (steiner/ montessori etc) pride themselves on the fact that they have few or no children with these problems because their teaching methods allow these children the freedom to follow an education based on their strengths and not relying on normal league tables. http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:t2g...
I would really love to hear your thoughts on this.
Do you feel its all rubbish and you put your trust in your child's pills?
Do you think there is something interesting but feel unable to do anything through lack of money or information?
Do you already believe your child may fit the Indigo category?
Many thanks for your time and opinions :)

EDIT: Stimpson J. Cat, you are a fast reader! Thank you for your opinion but that wasn't the question.

Believe it or not. We had a very active forster child headed for a medication when we took her into our home. We removed all the sweets from her diet and she settled into the best normal child. I find it appalling that a doctor will not tell you this and advise you too try it before meds are administered. ADHD is misunderstood condition making the doctors and drug companies rich at our expense.

I looked at the website. What a bunch of hooey.

I have no idea what the indigo thing is and i do not look at links Im not familiar with sorry. My daughter was diagnosed in 8th grade. Shed always been a handful, and the schools Dr who did the testing, really improved the quality of her life emensly! Just her knowing, all that anger and frustration she was experiencing, and causing others, was alot out of her control. Once she knew this, she on her own improved alot, not right away, but she tried much harder to walk away when upset, and her classes were swapped around to teachers who had an interest or training with her issues and wow her grades got better, and she completed more of her work, or got credit for what she had done, because verbally she could outdo half her teachers on a subject, but couldnt always make time to write it down. She was never on medication.
I do believe, that this condition can be brought on by things going on at home possibly, and once the child is so gone, so out of control, their nervous system has been pretty much altered.
Just like a puppy that is stimulated way too much too often, it makes them hyper, I think this can happen to kids too.
The Schools you spoke of, I honestly dont feel thats a true statment about them. It might be a selling point that they use, my kids went to public school. In the end, you can only go so far letting kids work at their own pace always, there are rules in education, and kids do have to complete a lesson plan to go on to the next grade, so a lazy take advantage kid would never get to the next grade would they.
Its a shame, its a tough thing on the child, the family, their friends, thier coworkers and spouses. So many turn to drugs and alcohol to self medicate because their so wound up. I hope someday something can assist that works for everyone easily.
My brother took whatever that well known drug is, and I told my mom to take him off it, hed be so tired after school, so down, we missed that heck on wheels kid, so mom put him in a dif school that specialized in those types of things and it was much better for him, embarrassing cause the kids were also mentally challenged and all kids of things more than add adhd, but he got his education and that was what was desired.

I think you obviously have not lived on a day to day basis with a child who cannot do 2 tasks in a row, who walks into a room to do something and forgets why he is there, who sees something catch thier eye and forgets the task they are supposed to do...

ADHD and Autism are real disorders. My 13 year old son has both, and does need his medication to function in a socially acceptable way.He spent 6 years being himself before we even considered medication, but when his being himself starts to be a detriment to others, then we have a problem. He spent 9 years attacking adults in his life, mostly me, before he was diagnosed with his autism spectrum disorder. When he kicks YOU in the nose and breaks your nose because you would not let him attack his 8 year old sister for looking at him wrong, then you tell me the dx is hooey and to leave him be. When you have a bruise on your chest for SIX WEEKS where he kicked you while you tried to restrain him because he attacked you when you said something he did not like when he was agitated, then tell me that it is because he has evolved...

My son is neither misdiagnosed and has never been medicated (not knocking medication, if he needed it he would have it, so far we have been lucky) he is Aspergers end of - we just had to "put on our big girls pants and deal with it"

""The diagnostic criteria for autism is quite clear. It states that the autistic person lives in his or her own world, and is disconnected from other people. The autistic person doesn't talk because of an indifference to communicating with others" "

This is a very narrow and untrue fact about diagnosing autism - it is a spectrum and not all are in their own world or cannot talk or disconnected - I could go on....



I did read it and I believe people are entitled to their own beliefs and ideas but in my opinion it is total and complete mumbo jumbo - APART FROM these 3 words
"They're AWE-tistic!"
That I do believe!!