All your linked article suggests is that some are turning to social media to find explanations for their behaviors. Nowhere does it suggest that there is a nota

All your linked article suggests is that some are turning to social media to find explanations for their behaviors. Nowhere does it suggest that there is a notable increase in fake diagnosis that results in accessing pharmaceuticals, or that anyone takes a fake diagnosis more seriously than the traditional route. There is zero evidence that there is an increase of people who are diagnosed via short meetings and immediately drugged especially when the drugs are under far heavier restrictions than say Ozempic. The rest is anecdotal, just as easily as you say you've met so many who have been diagnosed and drugged, I can say I have not met many. Most of them seem very anti-diagnosis even when it's clearly affecting them due to this stigma. Yet you'll discount my position because it's anecdotal. If you think your worldview holds water, why are there so many studies proving the efficacy of both non-stimulant and stimulant drugs in trials that are double-blind, placebo controlled, and using parallel groups? (eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000197/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000197/) Shouldn't it be identical to placebo for reducing ADHD symptoms? Far more interesting to me is how you've met so many neurodivergent people. Many studies have talked about subconscious biases of those who are neurotypical (eg: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286449/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286449/) which goes both ways, as we gravitate to those most similar to us. Unless you're a social worker or creating statistical anomalies in your head of course. Are there people out there who have been drugged by their parents without having a real problem? Probably. But these are parents who would go through a hundred doctors to find one who can be bought, as now they would have to specifically avoid the plethora of alternative solutions doctors offer due to ADHD stigma (stigma noted in papers like https://sites.ucmerced.edu/files/laura-hamilton/files/metzgerhamiltonadhd.pdf https://sites.ucmerced.edu/files/laura-hamilton/files/metzge...).