I mostly get people telling me my ADHD/depression isn't real and that I'm making excuses. I guess that's why we're more accepted. People think we're just lazy instead of ND
There have been a bunch of archetypes to understand ADHD behaviors in media, too. Usually not super flattering, but way more varied and sympathetic than most other ND people get
There are people who say "ADHD people are making excuses" and then there are people who say "capitalism tries to mash people into the cogs which produces ADHD symptoms". So even if they say the "disease" isn't real in some genetic sense, they acknowledge that the symptoms are causing unnecessary suffering. People have different living conditions and therefore develop different variants of those symptoms. None of this means drugs are useless. Same with depression. As someone who definitely has one and likely the other these arguments appeal more to me, but I could be missing something?
I mostly get people telling me my ADHD/depression isn't real and that I'm making excuses. I guess that's why we're more accepted. People think we're just lazy instead of ND
There have been a bunch of archetypes to understand ADHD behaviors in media, too. Usually not super flattering, but way more varied and sympathetic than most other ND people get
Oh yeah don't get me wrong we are way more accepted than we used to be and there is def the problems that the OP talked about
There are people who say "ADHD people are making excuses" and then there are people who say "capitalism tries to mash people into the cogs which produces ADHD symptoms". So even if they say the "disease" isn't real in some genetic sense, they acknowledge that the symptoms are causing unnecessary suffering. People have different living conditions and therefore develop different variants of those symptoms. None of this means drugs are useless. Same with depression. As someone who definitely has one and likely the other these arguments appeal more to me, but I could be missing something?