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> the acknowledgment of a disability is much easier now. Are you saying a significant part of human kind has been disabled for the past couple of thousand year
by the-dude 6y ago
> the acknowledgment of a disability is much easier now.
Are you saying a significant part of human kind has been disabled for the past couple of thousand years and we are only now acknowledging this?
I am old enough to remember ADD/ADHD did not exist. We were outside a lot.
- jacques_chester 6y ago> I am old enough to remember ADD/ADHD did not exist. It existed, but it was undiagnosed and untreated.
- the-dude 6y agoI acknowledge that it existed : severe cases were known and described. But did it 'exist' at this scale? I don't think so.
- jacques_chester 6y agoI do think so. Neurological understanding of ADHD has advanced enormously in the past few decades. I'm touchy about this subject because it's hard not to take the implication personally that it's somehow a recent invention.
- pseudalopex 6y ago"The first example of a disorder that appears to be similar to ADHD was given by Sir Alexander Crichton in 1798."[1] Mild ADHD was less of an impediment before industrialization. It's less of an impediment if you have a secretary at the office and a wife at home. Self medicating can help. What does a severe case look like if you don't know what you're looking at? Maybe shiftless, maybe dim, maybe accident prone, maybe hot headed, maybe a drunk. Do you think people didn't get PTSD before the name was invented? [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000907/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000907/
- hasmolo 6y agoyes, that’s exactly what i’m saying.