“so i guess everyone has adhd then, huh” no, that’s really not the case but maybe you really have it and should look into it more because maaaybe your perception of ‘everyone’ is merely this way because of your undiagnosed adhd. you only think everyone does this because you’ve been doing it your whole life
Neurotypical people will tell you about how they can see auras and talk to ghosts but the second you mention you have ADHD they’re like “I’m pretty sure that doesn’t exist”
I never claimed to know everything about ADHD and Autism. I don’t. We don’t as a species. There’s a lot we don’t know or hasn’t been proven completely yet.
Also, it would take a lot of time to write out everything I do know. At least about ADHD.
Anyway, even if I wanted to spend a long time writing all I know out, I wouldn’t for someone who called me an idiot multiple times on one post. That’s not my idea of a good time.
As for your “you don’t get to have an opinion”, why, precisely, don’t I? Just because I don’t have ADHD/Autism, I’m not allowed to talk about them? That seems weird, to be honest. Very stupid honestly. Even in a world where I don’t know anyone well with either ADHD or autism, it seems to the benefit of my acquaintances that I know about the two of them so that I can be a decent person, and that I can spread said knowledge so that other people can also be decent people. I don’t talk about anecdotal aspects of ADHD/Autism or talk about it as if I have them, because that’d be stupid, but I do “get to have an opinion”.
Also, how am I an idiot? ADHD and autism are neurodevelopmental disorders. That was the point I was making. I wasn’t saying they weren’t real or something. The disorders effect the development and function of people’s brains, and they don’t usually go away at adulthood. They start in childhood, sure, but they usually persist. Treating them as disorders that only exist in childhood has shown itself to be harmful. Hence “neurodevelopmental disorder” being more accurate than childhood disorder.
So, if you have any specific questions, I’d be happy to answer, but I’m not giving much more to someone who was rude to me without a specific question and/or some type of apology or acknowledgement of wrongdoing.
“back in the day, this was called daydreaming. today it’s called adhd” bitch, adhd has been documented for centuries. it’s literally one of the most well-researched mental disorders. what the heck are you talking about
the earliest medical documentation I know of is by Alexander Crichton, a Scottish physician who lived from 1763 to 1856. he described a mental restlessness: “In this disease of attention, if it can with propriety be called so, every impression seems to agitate the person, and gives him or her an unnatural degree of mental restlessness. People walking up and down the room, a slight noise, in the same, the mowing a, the shutting a door suddenly, a flight excess of heat or of cold, to much light or to little light, all destroy constant attention in such patients. Inasmuch as it is easily is exited by every impression”. his patients described this as ‘the fidgets’ (great term, I know). (source) physicians today now all agree that this was the first documented description of ADHD.
then there’s also Heinrich Hoffmann, a German psychiatrist who lived from 1809 to 1894 and who’s also considered to be one of the medical ADHD pioneers. remember the story of fidgety Philip? it’s said that this story was written with a group of patients in mind who expressed key signs of hyperactivity and impulsivity. same can be said about the story of Johnny Look-at-Air which is about inattention. again, these are seen as early descriptions of ADHD.
it’s important to remember that ADHD has gone through many changes over the years. especially when it comes to the name. but it’s always been there. it’s nothing new, nothing technology induced. nothing which solely appears in this century.
ADHD meds don’t slow down ADHD brains. Even if it has that effect. That’s not the chemical effect it’s having, that’s either the way it feels or the way it looks.
Doesn’t take a ton of understand of how neurons communicate and of what the medication itself does to that process to understand that.
ADHD meds don’t slow down ADHD brains. Even if it has that effect. That’s not the chemical effect it’s having, that’s either the way it feels or the way it looks.
Doesn’t take a ton of understand of how neurons communicate and of what the medication itself does to that process to understand that.
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