The last D is for disorder. If you have ADHD, it's not cute and relatable, it's making your life worse to the point of needing to be addressed. Everybody having "a little ADHD" is a way of trivializing the level of actual problems that are required for it to be called a disorder.

[–] NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is the correct answer and I feel it's very important to emphasize this point. You can have "symptoms" of whatever the fuck, but in order for it to be considered a disorder, it must disrupt your life in some way. I usually lean more into the camp of just trying to be supportive of people when they speak about mental health disorders, but there are definitely those kids out there self-diagnosing disorders like they're collecting pokemon. As someone who legitimately has been diagnosed with multiple disorders by actual licensed psychological professionals, it's aggravating to see those kids infantilize mental health in that capacity, where it perpetuates the already uphill battle for many of us to be taken seriously in the first place. ADHD has absolutely ruined my life and I would absolutely(in a hypothetical) take a relatively high chance of death at "curing" my ADHD without a single hesitation. Life is hard enough with all these fucking disorders, definitely don't need the added burden of always feeling like I have to prove that I really am that fucked up.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fucking spot on. I feel this way about most of my disorders, except ASD. My ASD is a part of me, though it does have its downsides.

The ADHD is the most significant, though. If I could just remove this anchor from my brain, my quality of life would skyrocket. I don't find it a "superpower" at all. I am not exaggerating when I say that it has stolen my childhood and early adulthood, and from the outside it looks like laziness or a lack of discipline. Solidarity.

[–] Daikeyedunce34@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

There’s an element at play here that communicates an issue with how society treats you. I would argue that ADHD just by the curiosity and random attention it can focus on spawns an interesting idea of creativity in being drawn by and interested in all sorts of ideas that may have no overlap.

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