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This is Pierson Feeney. After being diagnosed with ADHD at the age four, he began to show differences in behaviour that led doctors to put him on morning and night doses of prescription medicine.
However, according to his mother, Marsha Feeney, the medicines only made Pierson's condition worse. He developed ticks and his ADHD got so severe that by the time he was 9, it was hard for the family to go out in public together.
"His ADHD was disrupting our whole family. We, at the time, could not go to dinner. We could not go to birthday parties. We pretty much stayed home," she told the [SunHerald](http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/characters/article68415412.html).
As his condition worsened, his mother was desperate to help him
This video shows how dancing helped Pierson overcome ADHD:
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