bThe first book of its kind about what it's like to be a child with ADHD, iHyperi is a haunting narrative that explores the world's most scrutinized childhood condition from the inside out iNaturei that also illuminates the history of how we came to medicate more than four million children today.b pAmong the first generation of boys prescribed medication for ADHD in the 1980s, Timothy Denevi took Ritalin at the age of six and suffered a psychotic reaction. Thus began his long odyssey through a variety of treatments. In iHyperi, Denevi describes how he made his way to adulthood, knowing he was a problem for those who loved him, longing to be able to be good and fit in, and finally realizing he had to come to grips with his disorder before his life spun out of control. Using these experiences as a springboard, Denevi also traces our understanding and treatment of ADHD from the nineteenth century, when bad parenting and even government conspiracies were blamed, through the twentieth centu