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What is your view about AD(H)D?

• go_elmo 3y ago
  The biggest issue people with adhd have (me included) is focus. Methylphenidate helps a lot with that as its mechanism is proven. It does however not change the "neurodivergent" thinking and processing. There still is a clear distinction from non-adhd ers - in all aspects of being, including communication. Many issues that make these things a "malfunction" are due to todays system of work and society. Not judging anything, but simply pointing out the huge diff between that and e.g. hunter-gatherer societies where we lived in at least 100x longer - the genotypes of adhd & asd established themselves over that periods in humans, compared to "disease" like trisomy 21 the rates are much higher too - its not a disease but a neurotype and most research agrees today. Humanity Profits from diversity in all forms, like all biological systems - it makes them more resilient (thats also used in ML btw). Trying to cure such things by making them dissapear is sick by design and often results in eugenics theories. I use this opportunity to say that "help" organizations like autism speaks that promote finding "cures" do a lot of harm - similar to conversion therapies for lgbtq people. Autistics should self advocate as much as possible, thats also the safest organisations to support. I must say that thats solely my opinion - many autistics also suffer a lot and would love to be healed - even if it means losing their personality, sufferings are real. I just dont think its realistic to implement such things until we understand tvmhe brain fully and could also e.g. change psychopaths, color blind people etc (not easy "fixes") Thanks a lot for asking and reading this!