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[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

At 11 I was waiting for my hogwarts letter and wanted to be an astronaut inventor. If someone, especially a doctor, said that taking a shot and wearing different clothes would make me happier, then I'd probably have believed them.

[–]julesburm1891 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If someone, especially a doctor, said that…

100% this. At 11, anything a parent, teacher, doctor, police officer, etc. said was unquestionably true.

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I did believe doctors who didn't mean the best for me as a kid, and a kid older than 11 at that. When I was 14, my mother once took me to one of those herbal-healing quack doctors who claims to be a Cherokee. He claimed to be able to cure ADHD with regular consumption of dried clovers combined with diffusion of essential oil of catnip while I sleep. I thought he was awesome and super smart for months until my mother and I both realized none of this bullshit was actually helping me and I should probably go back on my real meds.

[–]DiveBarDiva 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

My grandma took me to a quack doctor that tried to treat my ADD with vitamin B12 and valerian root

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

B12 might actually be slightly more effective than what the quack Mama took me to gave me, but only because catnip and clovers did exactly shit-all nothing. At least B12 is an actual vitamin proven to have an actual role in central nervous system function.