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Well if you're an ignorant cunt, maybe.

• tremon 6y ago
  Point is, these labels make it easier to be an ignorant cunt because they allow you to classify people as an out-group.
  • WalterSear 6y ago
    To refuse to identify the issue is to do exactly what the ignorant cunts are doing.
  • james_s_tayler 6y ago
    Well, it's the exact opposite. They allow people qualified to diagnose the condition to identify those of us who have a pervasive developmental disorder with well known brain correlates that give rise to our behavior that appears as lazy, selfish, forgetful and stubborn. If anyone wants to tell me "nah man, you're just a bad person" I'll tell em right back "Nah man, you're just an ignorant cunt." Normally when you meet such people they are explicitly trying to reject the label based on a single data point and a piss poor understanding of the condition. It usually goes something like "But you can't have ADHD because you're a successful software engineer, so you must be able to focus right?". Sorry, but yes, yes I can and if you want to try and comment on whether I do or do not have ADHD then you'll have to go through the full diagnostic assessment and that first entails getting board certified and then gaining significant clinical experience with ADHD or being under the supervision of someone who does.