My First Night on ADHD Drugs and my first Police encounter

This is a short story of the first time i took ADHD drugs. It was 1987 and i was prescribed both Cylert a now banned drug world wide and ritalin. This was because i was classified as very hyper and ecitiable. Much more then my br0ther 18 months younger then i. He was only diagnosed ADD told to take ritalin. So it was the evening and i had taken a does in the morning and at lunch at school. I was the first student in Chester Middle school diagnosed at ADHD and with perscription drugs. This diagnosement was new to the school and so they did not know what to do. The school decided since i now had a medical condition it must be classified as Learning Disabled(LD). So the overreacted. I was removed from my english class, which already was a low performer X level class, with a new inexperienced teacher who had NO CONTROL of the class. It turns out i do better when a teacher is experienced and challenges me in class. So the school overreacted, they pulled me from main stream class english and sent me to LD english. This may have been due to my testing scores which showed in the 7th grade my English level was mid 3rd grade. and yes i admit i never read much at home. I was encourage to go play outside and not bother the adults. Thus i never read much until i was in my 20's isolated on a tropical island without electricity, but i will get into the USPC another time. So in my new class i was given vocabulary, word like cat and dog, 3 and 4 letter words, which Didn't work, it was retarded class and not for me. Lucky they put me back into another mainstream class. Well the big fun happened after i got home from school, I felt different, like i guess i was on drugs. Its hard to say, i was told i was better and thought it was the case. So in the evening it was time to go to bed and i did. I must have gone to bed late, but i cannot remember, what did happen was i laid in Bed AWAKE, not a little sleep urge at all, I layed for 3-4 hours and it was the middle of the night, I could not take not being able to sleep. So i got up. I walked around the house and everything was silent, and sleeping. So i decided to go outside, It must have been going on 3am by this time. I thought what to do, i can't sleep and i am not tired. Well maybe if i ride my bike the excursion will make me tired and then i can sleep. I loved my bike, i rode to school often, It was close and so was a 7/11 convenience store. So i decided i would ride to 7/11 and buy some Gum for school, as a young entrepreneur i would buy gum before school and sell pieces at school which help fund my candy fund and extra allowance. ALSO probably why i was so FUCKING hyper at school, too much SUGAR and no exercise. So i rode on to my favorite 7/11 next to the Chester library where my mom volunteered. It was amazing to see the bright lights on it the middle of the night. I saw only one police car in the parking lot and the cop was inside buying some coffee. So i took my gum to the counter and attempted to pay. Then the police man took me to the side and said why am i out at night. I told him i could not sleep and it was very close to my home. Well that was not good enough for him and he had to take me home, It was illegal for me to be out at night without parents. It is breaking the curfew laws. This was all new to me so the police man proceeded to take me and my bike into his squad car and take us home, Nothing like awaking my parents, who already have had enough disturbances from my by the police, they were not happy, but luckily it was not at me, they were very pissed at the police man who had disturbed them in there slumber, when i had the most simplest valid reason to be out. Well that was the end. I guess the event made me sleepy enough to get an hour of sleep or two as i wake up about 5:30am or before to prepare for school, First bell rang at 6:50 am. Now i would never do this again, I think based on diet and exercise i could have had a much more benifitial childhood. I did go on to complete high school, college and get my masters degree. Not thanks to the schools or drug compainies.