What counts as a diagnosis? Technically I’ve had a medical doctor (no clue what their specialty was) try to prescribe me adhd meds when I was like a toddler (my mom refused). Ironically, the reason my parents brought me at all was mostly sleeping problems IIRC. Even with treatment for sleep apnea and when I’m regularly getting 9 hours of sleep, my adhd symptom’s don’t seem to change much. If anything, being exhausted might make me more normal.
A diagnosis counts as a diagnosis. ADHD worth any concern is easily identified and diagnosed. If it is hard to determine, it’s very likely one (or some) of the countless other things that cause the same symptoms and are more often fixable, but can cause harm/damage if ignored. It is quite simply a numbers game and of all the things causing symptoms like foggy short-term memory, attention drain, daily fatigue, etc, ADHD as the cause would definitely be a single digit percentile. This makes it a concern that people—ironically as someone else put it—gloss over their problems with alignment to memes/post as conviction over professional diagnosis. It also makes things more difficult for the community and those within that do indeed have ADHD.
Again, I’m not saying this is the case, but the remarkable uptick in ADHD’s trend lately is certainly making me consider that people are neglecting their health or are indirectly encouraging others to. If I see a meme about ADHD being the LOL cause of needing to sneeze, I’m calling it.
What counts as a diagnosis? Technically I’ve had a medical doctor (no clue what their specialty was) try to prescribe me adhd meds when I was like a toddler (my mom refused). Ironically, the reason my parents brought me at all was mostly sleeping problems IIRC. Even with treatment for sleep apnea and when I’m regularly getting 9 hours of sleep, my adhd symptom’s don’t seem to change much. If anything, being exhausted might make me more normal.
A diagnosis counts as a diagnosis. ADHD worth any concern is easily identified and diagnosed. If it is hard to determine, it’s very likely one (or some) of the countless other things that cause the same symptoms and are more often fixable, but can cause harm/damage if ignored. It is quite simply a numbers game and of all the things causing symptoms like foggy short-term memory, attention drain, daily fatigue, etc, ADHD as the cause would definitely be a single digit percentile. This makes it a concern that people—ironically as someone else put it—gloss over their problems with alignment to memes/post as conviction over professional diagnosis. It also makes things more difficult for the community and those within that do indeed have ADHD.
Again, I’m not saying this is the case, but the remarkable uptick in ADHD’s trend lately is certainly making me consider that people are neglecting their health or are indirectly encouraging others to. If I see a meme about ADHD being the LOL cause of needing to sneeze, I’m calling it.