“ADHD” is a fiction that was invented to explain humanity’s declining attention span. It just so happens that the people who invented it also have profited off of the invention to the tune of many billions of dollars. I think it’s time we start searching for a better explanation.
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You really don’t know anything about ADHD at all, don’t you? To start with, we only make up about five percent of the population, so we cannot serve as an explanantion to describe society-wide phenomena. I presume that by “humanity’s declining attention span”, you mwan that old spiel about people only being aware of what is on TV, which is not what ADHD is about at all. The annual profit on ADHD medication is less than five percent of that of anti-depressants, and Methylphenidat prescriptions have plateaued around 2010-2012. Oh yes, and it really does not take long that my brain does indeed work differently from normal people’s, something I clearly inherited from my mother (as so often, she was one of the cases where, when her child was diagnosed, so many strange problems she faced throughout her life stated to make sense…).
“God” is a fiction that was invented to explain humanity’s unknowns about life, the universe and everything. It just so happens that the people who invented it also have profited off of the invention to the tune of many billions of dollars. I think it’s time we start searching for a better explanation.
You know who disagreed with you in 80s and 90s? Qualified therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists.
<@Titania > #125013
@Titania , @shy :
As someone who has been treated with Methylphenidat my entire life, I vehemently disagree. Without my indications, I can suffer from terrible feelings of unfocusedness, and even brainfog, sensory overload and terrible restlessness - that last one was very torturous during my rehabitation last year, where I needed to come down to get my Ritalin each day because it is a drug-law regulated substance (despite the doses being far from anything that could be used as a drug…). amd I woke up too earöy for that to open, and suffered from said horrible restlessness. And no, this is not in any way “medicating my personality traits”, it does not diminish the positive aspect, and no, this cannot be “accomodated” because this is NOT everyone else, those very much ARE internal states of my brain.
<@Bastethotep > #125038
<@shy > #125045
Yeah, very much same with me. I refuse and always had to take meds for what I consider my innate personality trait. I get to some this is an unbearable condition and at the heart of it everybody should be free to choose whether to medicate themselves or not but personally in my case I tend to take a lot of offence if somebody starts up on my ADHD being a disadvantage or a disability. It is neither in my case and controlling it through my own means gives me much more good than shit.
And to people who do take the meds for it: Please DO NOT invalidate our perceptions and our views on our own conditions, I have been dealing with doctors doing that a lot in my old country and it has been a very triggering experience all throughout. If anything these days the issue is on the side pushing those meds on unwilling people, conversely just about any person with this condition can get access to them, if they do need them after seeing a doctor.
“I think it’s time we start searching for a better explanation.”
Okay. How? The same scientific method that came up wiht ADHD? Sure. let’s go reinvent the wheel. Then you’ll reject tHOSE findings because, like a creationist, ‘i don’t like it so the authors must be corrupt.’
Useful.
I have ADHD and I’m not on medication for it. ADHD is real, observable, and not a disability. I wouldn’t expect Matt Walsh to understand that. He doesn’t even have the attention span to understand gender.
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