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I get why people are annoyed by the seemingly fashionable emergence of ADHD. The trends in the therapeutic community, and corresponding marketing of various methods to fix, plus the pop culture analysis, and the over-medication of everyone about everything when, in my opinion, the real problem is that society doesn’t allow people to be who they are. I get it.
But having listened to so many of the people on this site, and seeing how much we have in common, it’s clear that this is a real thing. I watch my son who also has it, and I see it’s a real thing.
The stigma is problematic. My son won’t hear anything about it because he’s afraid of the label. And it does look like being “lazy.” No one who knew how I live my life – who saw it and saw my finances and saw my skills vs. my employment – would believe I can’t manage the basics. But I really can’t. Because if I could – duh! – I’d be doing it. As if I want to live like this.
The Russell Barkley lectures on YouTube are really informative. He has a couple good ones that are an hour or so long, which I recommend.
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