14 DAY TRIAL // After a life of struggling with Attention Deficit Disorder, Josh decided to let people in by showing them what it's like to be like him. He explains the fight he has to bear every day and the effects the medicine has on him in a YouTube video.
It is amazing to see a child explaining his life struggle and the fact that he has been battling the disorder for as long as he remembers. He talks about his special medication and about the way the drugs change him, acting as a restraining mechanism on his personality.
He describes himself as a below-average student and tells people about the burden that tutoring is on him, but what bothers him the most is the ADHD medication that makes him different. People ask him “what's wrong with you? Are you sad? Why aren't you acting the same?” and his friends are just waiting for the medication's effect to wear off so he could be funny again.
Josh calls his medication “mental handcuffs” because it takes away everything he likes and makes him hate it. For him, it all comes down to a simple equation “Happy Max” means no pills and more tutoring hours and “Sad Max” is less tutoring hours but more pills.
The whole point of the clip is to figure out what is his best solution: more pills or no pills? At the end of the video, he just says that he won't reveal what he chose, but that he is happy, which makes it pretty obvious.