Point taken - I may have ADHD or I may not, as I implied I don't really know, and the bad reaction to adderall obviously isn't universal. Though I'll also say the dosage wasn't unknown, and the professionals gave me extensive reasons not to trust them. Drugs don't affect you differently depending on who prescribed them, and the main point of the story was that I didn't trust these people to accurately diagnose or prescribe anything. If they won't even let me question them about their diagnosis, I wouldn't trust them to listen to me about my reactions and side effects either.
This is a controversial subject though, so I'm going to step out now. Just wanted to share the story of my negative experience with it.
> the main point of the story was that I didn't trust these people to accurately diagnose or prescribe anything.
Your experience is an indictment of bad psychiatry, which nobody here would defend. But you explicitly say you wouldn't trust them to diagnose you with anything (I wouldn't either), so I'm not sure why you then draw the conclusion you did:
> So I definitely think this whole thing is a huge pharma scam at this point. I'd be highly skeptical of any ADHD diagnoses
(FWIW, your comment is gray as I write this; I didn't downvote you, but I wanted to explain why I think someone might have).
This is a controversial subject though, so I'm going to step out now. Just wanted to share the story of my negative experience with it.