there are freakout posts every hour or so on r/adhd. desperate plans to amass a huge petition of signatures, or challenge it legally with a class act. lawsuit, but mostly a lot of despair and disbelief. also some blaming of the so-called undeserved adderall users that are allegedly the official reason for the shortage...and something about tiktok users.

it's bad and capitalism is certainly the reason why. i'd like to understand the nuance of it more though if anyone had some good leftist takes on it.

  • Cottryofidia [any]
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    2 years ago

    ok, thanks for explaining. I said 'difficulty concentrating' because its another way of saying attention deficit. Isn't it to be expected that difficulty concentrating, or attention deficit, will necessarily involve issues with motivation, task initiation, and executive function since those things are all required for attention?

    Personally, interacting with various people who have been diagnosed with ADHD, I find it very difficult to notice a difference between them and any other person except in that they're more socially expressive of how (understandably) bored they are by what I'm saying or what they're/we're doing. Of course I'm no expert in the criteria for such a diagnosis, this is just my subjective perception of these people.