Hard no. We have decades of research establishing there are distinct differences in the brains of people with ADHD and real kinds of tasks in which they drastic

Hard no. We have decades of research establishing there are distinct differences in the brains of people with ADHD and real kinds of tasks in which they drastically underperform regardless of effort. It might be nice to think it's really just part of a rainbowy spectrum of everyone is different and koombaya, but it's simply not true. Similar to another commenter here, I told myself this story until my early thirties and suffered the whole time thinking I was using the ADHD "label" as a crutch. ADHD and other mental illnesses get this "just a label" treatment because we don't walk around with missing limbs or eyeballs. Most people with ADHD mask their symptoms enough to feign normality. That normality is enough to make them functional while enough to fool others the stray from normal is akin to the occasional distractability of neurotypical brains.