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The "everyone is a little ADHD" is particularly annoying because it's basically true but misses the problem. Everyone does get distracted at times. But people w
by annie_muss 4y ago
The "everyone is a little ADHD" is particularly annoying because it's basically true but misses the problem. Everyone does get distracted at times. But people with ADHD have it to a much worse degree.
It's like height. Everyone has a height, but if you're 180cm tall you'll find the world caters to you well, but at 250cm you struggle to fit and basic tasks are difficult.
- kortex 4y agoIt's not "basically true" though. The whole point of the "disorder" designation is that it interferes with life activities. Everyone has attention deficits at times - that does not a disorder make. Otherwise I agree with the analogy.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoLike all English statements, it depends on how you read it. I read it as, "everyone experiences the symptoms of ADHD to some extent, including those who don't experience symptoms beyond the threshold of a disorder." The big question is, do you see that fact as a tool for the average person to trivialize or to empathize with the ADHD experience?
- sirsinsalot 4y agoIts the same as people saying "I'm a bit OCD". They aren't. Having both OCD and ADHD I can tell you that people who say they are "a bit OCD" or "a bit ADHD" have never wished they were dead because their executive function is shot and their emotional regulation is so compromised, and that they're fed up of washing their hands until they bleed. Everyone has some traits of most disorders from time to time. What marks a disorder is that it is constant, unrelenting, pathological and happiness destroying.