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That's the entire point I'm trying to make. "Everyone has X" is a categorically wrong understanding of what the underlying problem is. An equivalent is saying
by kayodelycaon 4y ago
That's the entire point I'm trying to make. "Everyone has X" is a categorically wrong understanding of what the underlying problem is.
An equivalent is saying everyone has trouble walking sometimes when we're talking about someone who limps and needs a cane.
The symptoms are not the disorder and don't come from the same mechanism that causes normal people to have difficultly paying attention sometimes.
- sirsinsalot 4y agoAbsolutely this. A normal range of feeling / experience isn't a "bit of a disorder" ... it is no disorder. Feeling like you need to wash dirt off your hands before eating isn't a "bit of OCD", that's normal. Worrying irrationally so much about clean hands that it ruins your life, leaving you crying from normal tasks like cooking ... every touch of a surface triggers fight/flight ... is a disorder. It isn't the mechanism that's important, but the impact and motivators. Same with ADHD. A bit of being inattentive or forgetful or whatever ... isn't a "bit" of the disorder that also contains some of those behaviours in extreme.
- colechristensen 4y agoIn many cases it is not a differing underlying cause but simply the same thing further out of balance. Psychiatry diagnoses are essentially never based on a mechanistic explanation and I challenge you to come up with an actual binary change present in those with adhd and those without besides the latter having somebody put that label on them.