>What's the big deal with calling illness an illness or mental health disorder? I'm not on medication and have ADHD. You're just essentially calling me disord

>What's the big deal with calling illness an illness or mental health disorder? I'm not on medication and have ADHD. You're just essentially calling me disordered, disabled, and untreated. The consequent stigma impacts my social and professional opportunities, and this stigma is justified primarily on the basis that if I just simply hate and disparage who I am enough I might be motivated to take ADHD medications and thus become "better". I dunno, when you call me less orderly than other people, and less able than other people, but I'm not being described a "lesser"? Utter horseshit. I've heard this sort of rhetoric in disability communities many times before but no, being disabled and disordered is a bad thing. That is WHY Russel Barkley likes calling people disabled and disordered - because that give people an impetus to get "Better". I simply an intolerant of people using languages that portrays me as less capable, when autism + ADHD has opened up many doors for me that otherwise would have been closed. It's just fucking unfair and defamatory. If people want to be on meds, go on meds, but I don't see why you have to call me "disordered" in the process.