Re: I expected better from them

[sdwa]

I’ve had similar reactions – my mother’s second husband, who has a PhD in molecular biology, is one of those people who doesn’t believe ADHD exists and was just invented by the drug companies to trick parents into buying expensive prescriptions. I read an entire book by a psychologist who dismisses problems like ADHD and clinical depression as symptomatic of political problems – while I see his point about living in an isolating and frenetic culture, that is not the entire picture.

What I’ve done is tried to inform myself as much as possible. Talking to other people who face the same issues helps even more than learning about the brain stuff. Hearing a room full of people with the same “symptoms,” similar experiences, similar challenges and preferred ways of doing things, I know ADHD is a real condition. And because I know it, I can deal with it for myself, without having to convince anyone else.

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