So in the past two years, I acquired probably 30 new friends and every single one of them claimed they have ADHD. I don’t have a single friend who doesn’t have ADHD. It is literally everybody right now. Most of these are self-diagnosed pick-me’s. What the fuck is even ADHD? I feel like it is just a huge lie to get people one dope medications and create mass-psychosis.
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the meds they are taking give them extreme amounts of dopamine for long periods of time to make them more focused and happy. When they use these meds for a long period of time, they become completely dependent on them. If they ever quit, they end up suicidal and schizophrenic.
Scientifically, your average ADHD friend is not much different than a crackhead/methhead. it is just that their drug gives a bit less dopamine.
Seems a unique situation to you. I know a couple of people with ADHD, but only a couple. Could just be people you know faking it wanting to get Ritalin.
Without going into scientific details, ADHD is real and more people are being legitimately diagnosed because the broader understanding, both medically and socially, has greatly increased over the years. There are many effective strategies and natural approaches to managing a life with ADHD.
That said, you are correct in that it has become a trendy self-diagnosis for what is essentially just an excuse for their bad behaviour. And legal amphetamines. With who knows what consequences.
Lie or not, my ADHD diagnosis and Adderall have made my life 100x better. Instead of sitting on the couch wasting my life, I’m learning and doing more than I had ever dreamed possible.
I appreciate the complexity of this; I have seen people who have found genuine relief from their symptoms, they calm down, they can concentrate, life is better for them.
I have also seen people who are incredibly hyperactive, cannot stop talking, jump from different conversational topics quickly, cannot focus, are irritable and have trouble sleeping.
Make of my observations what you will; like anything on the internet, I’m just another “voice” screaming into the digital void.
I think everyone has been jammed with fucking hormones and dyes and bullshit vaccines and there having side effects from all that. And they are sluggish and “feel lazy or tired” and it’s not there fault it’s the environment we live in thus a fix is produced. Problem =Solution
Everybody wants to be special nowadays.
Normal is boring.
So they make up they have adhd.
Why?
People want something to blame for their fuckups, can’t be responsible themselves ofcourse.
Also Adhd can’t really be proven right on the spot.
It’s fucking pathetic.
“Oh yeah but the papers on my desk have to align perfectly with the other square shapes thats why I have adhd”
No. Just no.
They said I have adhd when i was 22, never had meds for it, never had trouble with anything. Never wanted special treatment and never got it and doing just fine.
Just accept youre not really special. Adhd is a sham
Gluten sensitivity can mimic adhd symptoms. Our bodies are in over drive from glysophates
Judging by your writing you may have ADHD. Ask your doctor if Adderall is right for you.
My mom used to say “they only came out with adhd because they took away smoking in the teachers lounge” 😂😂😂. She was so kooky sometimes. I miss her
I got diagnosed with ADHD in 1991. I’ve taken Adderall since I was in highschool, Ritalin prior to that. I am now in my 40s, and no longer take medication for it because A: as I’ve aged, my symptoms are less severe, B: I now have a job that doesn’t require as much of the type of focus that is difficult when I’m unmedicated, and C: I got tired of some of the side effects.
Yes, lots of people are self-diagnosed with lots of issues. Please remember though, that as we progress through time, we learn more as a species and a lot of what we thought we knew about the human brain only 10 or 20 years ago is now completely outdated. It’s not at all unlikely that there are more people who are on that spectrum than people who aren’t. It’s important to remember that just because two people have been diagnosed with the same issue, and prescribed the same medications, it doesn’t mean that their brains function the same. One person might have totally different symptoms, or handle their symptoms completely differently than another.
The goal for pharma is to make money, and turning you into lifetime customers for these drugs is the way they do it.
Legal speed. Yummy.
You can usually tell who has ADHD within seconds. Ironically the people who say they have it are usually not them. Like someone else said everyone wants to be different.
Thats great proof and use of the scientific method . Please get a hobby
So…uhm, TIL there are some methed up Hobbits
I think of it as, we created a society which produces symptoms which we then label as ADHD. ADHD medications are a pill that helps you cope with this stupid world we’ve built easier. If it was 1000 years ago and we were in a society ruined by some war, we might say that there has been wide scale possession by demons, but today we would call it something like PTSD. ADHD is one of our culture’s mythologies. It doesn’t make the things people experience any less real, and it doesn’t mean the medication doesn’t help lots of people. But I think if we don’t get beyond medicalisation then we’ll never see the deeper issues.
I’m saying this all as someone who got diagnosed, got on the meds, then thought, wtf am I doing? It made me feel like a machine. It’s helpful to feel like a machine in this machinic world we’ve built for the enrichment of Elon Musk etc. But I didn’t want to give in like that, and I worry that things like the widespread medicalisation of rational responses to a sick world just paper over the problems rather than try to deal with anything deeper. Although, it makes perfect sense. A doctor is not in a place to say “you’re struggling with attention because you live in a world with a highly developed attention economy, you’re experiencing economic precarity, most people are alienated from each other, and when Nietzsche declared the death of God we never found anything to replace Him so now you, and most other people, are bumbling around in a world lacking meaning and feeling terminally distracted while you do it”. Maybe they’ll tell you that off the clock.
My conspiracy theory is that this current fascist ramp up is why there has been an amphetamine shortage for years. It seems there are few things they love more than getting geeked on stimulants and oppressing people
If all your friends have adhd, you probably have adhd too. Ask me how I know😂
It’s like how now everyone wants to have autism
I, too am getting more done on speed.
Until I run out and my life is forever ruined.
Legal speed !!! I remember gettting that shit ! Not sleeping or eating ! I was like fuck this ! If you want to know what real AdHd is wait till you see a kid that can’t sit still for more then 30 secs ! I went to a school called Charles Armstrong. For learning disabilities and kids with ADHD/ADD. Me being dyslexic was one of the calm kids compared some of these kids bouncing off the walls. It was crazy.! Class only had 10-15 kid in it maybe 5-8 were add/adhd the rest were dyslexic learning disability, some sort? But when the ADHD kids would forget to take their medicine or run out oh my God it was a shit show. The teacher would send them to the office to get coffee to calm down and that wouldn’t even do shit cause their dose was so high.
I think a big part of it is our unnatural and unhealthy average city lifestyles are unless you consciously make an effort to stay healthy. Lots of competition, expected to sit and focus all day, 5 days a week, food with chemicals and hormones
I was diagnosed as a child and finally realized that is definitely what I have. I’ve never taken meds though, even as a child my mom wasn’t going for that. She said BTA was all the meds I needed 🤣🤣
People were addicted to amphetamines since they came out. It’s no different now
I’m officially diagnosed as a child.
I’m 29 now, and get why I was diagnosed. But I feel like a normal human nowadays.
Yes, I have some ADHD traits, but it’s a bit weird for me to claim I have a totally different neurological pathway system, just because I’m not very straight to the point when I’m explaining something.
It’s cool to be neurodivergent now.
ADHD is severely misunderstood by most everyone.
I was diagnosed by a skilled psychiatrist at the top of their field.
It’s not this oh look a squirrel bullshit.
It’s dissociating mid conversation because something that a person said that triggered a domino effect of ideas that flood your brain.
It’s hearing every single sound at the same time all the time regardless if you want to focus on one thing or not.
It’s picking stupid fights or irritating those around you just for a squirt of brain chemicals.
It’s having limitless out of the box ideas coupled with the inability to implement them.
There’s a lot more, but living with adhd for real sucks. It basically fucked my career.
I was diagnosed with doctors at a special clinic. I had to periodically visit so they could help me manage myself.
Real ADHD sucks.
OP has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
Generally most people with ADHD find each other. That’s why everyone in the same groups will end up having ADHD and click so well even with completely different personalities. Guessing you probably have it too 😅 It doesn’t always look the same, the kids who were very hyper, misbehaved in school and Impulsive etc like myself are very easy to spot, my brother however diagnosed later in life because he would hyper focus on games and computers and it wasn’t obvious until he started working. Some of the funniest traits would be if you have 10,000 unread emails, always late or have no concept of time, forgetting things or leaving things everywhere, and jumping from one obsession or hobby to the next.
The actual personality side of things will still differ alot with every person.
> What the fuck is even ADHD?
If only there was a way to look it up.
I have an idea, let’s invent little computers that fit in our pockets that give us access to all the knowledge mankind has at any given moment!
Will probably get downvoted for this, but are you American by any chance? The US reports higher rates of ADHD than most other countries. Additionally, the quality of food and the heavy reliance on cars rather than walking may be contributing factors.
The real conspiracy is why conspiracy theorists (and people in general) love policing what other people wanna do with their bodies.
Actually, the real conspiracy is asking why we make people lie to receive objectively performance enhancing wonder drugs
Our food supply and media exacerbate all of the symptoms of someone with adhd. People who eat like shit, and scroll all day probably do feel like they have adhd. Someone with true adhd, experiences all of the symptoms without external stimulation.
if all the new friends you’ve acquired have ADHD then there’s a very high chance you have it too. birds of a feather flock together