My mother took me to a extremely expensive child psychologist as a child. I don't recall what she said exactly, but I think she inadvertently suggested that she

My mother took me to a extremely expensive child psychologist as a child. I don't recall what she said exactly, but I think she inadvertently suggested that she "thought something was wrong". The diagnosis came, my mother ignored it, and I don't have whatever he said I had twenty years or so later (not a total waste of money, he did an IQ test, and a color blindness test, hard to fuck that up). It is an industry. At the time this happened, wealthier parents were often taking their kids to these people so they would give a diagnosis for extra time on school exams (this is presumably why he diagnosed me with something, iirc my mum told him he was wrong, he said "what do you want me to do?"). Obviously, the medication is an incentive for some kids now too. And the industry does affect how people cope, everything is medicalised and diagnosed, that isn't very helpful. The fact that kids have so much knowledge is also impacting diagnoses because they know what to say (and their parents are concerned too, and maybe say "I think you have this" and they want to validate that). Unfortunately, I don't think anyone is really getting helped. More resources are going towards the trendy stuff, normal emotion is getting "diagnosed", and it is the same old stuff if you actually have something wrong with you (unemployment rates for people with autism are 80%, "mental health awareness").