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> It's like they're TRYING to get people with ADHD to kill themselves. You're raging against the wrong machine. By rights, ADHD should not exist. The amount o
by jstarfish 4y ago
> It's like they're TRYING to get people with ADHD to kill themselves.
You're raging against the wrong machine.
By rights, ADHD should not exist. The amount of task-switching humans are expected to do in demonstrating mastery of the domains of entire departments is inhuman and unsustainable to begin with. We're pumping the population so full of amphetamines to keep up that we've literally run out of them.
Medicine can't fix the fact that nobody can survive as a fisherman anymore-- he has to be a full-stack scuba diver, boat captain, marine biologist and have a whale-hunting side hustle going on. Actually catching fish is what you do on the weekends.
- P_I_Staker 4y agoSorry, but much of this is pop culture nonsense. ADHD has a cluster of symptoms that are extremely disruptive to a large range of activities. Taking reasonable, low doses of stimulant medication can change how the brain functions and make day to day activities more tolerable. I don't know how you square your ideology with the fact ADHD people often struggle with day to day activities, eg. chores. So unless you think man was meant to have a women at home (I guess you could generalize to "caretaker"), I have no clue what you're talking about. Even if you solve this problem that doesn't explain the many other areas ADHD people struggle, like with basic socializing. There's a place for critiques of our culture and work environments. However, ADHD certainly exists and needs treatment, even in a more ideal world... they had these problems in "fishing times" or whatever, they just called it madness, or figured you were a horrible person.