This is cute and interesting, but it's grossly misleading, informed by a pervasive stigma that we would do well to be rid of.<p>There's no reason he'd be less creative or imaginative. There's no reason he wouldn't decide to go play in the snow. Getting to work on a paper for school early is a sign that he's learning to enjoy school, not a sign that he's become some kind of little automaton as implied. The world would not go gray for poor Calvin. In fact, he'd be better able to entertain even more complicated fantasies, to even better ponder life's mysteries, and to savor the world around him more fully.<p>I'm not saying that medicine is always the thing for everyone, but this comic implies that medicating children for ADHD is a tragedy. It implies that we'd be left with Calvin alone rather than Calvin and Hobbes. An imagination crushed and a childhood ruined.<p>On the contrary, it would be more likely to become Calvin and Hobbes and Crusoe and Harry Potter and Native Americans and Beethoven and Newton. Because he would be able to read a wider variety of books more easily.<p>And Calvin would finally be able to do math, complete his homework without it taking three times as long as it should, and to think about what he wants to say prior to actually saying it instead of lacking that capability.<p>It doesn't wipe out the interest in or capacity for daydreaming; it prevents daydreaming from running unchecked and unintended over other valuable and interesting things that a kid can do.