Hmm, I’ve become less and less sceptical over time simply because I’ve seen the research on how medicating those with ADHD drops all cause mortality enough to e

Hmm, I’ve become less and less sceptical over time simply because I’ve seen the research on how medicating those with ADHD drops all cause mortality enough to extend lifespan by several years. It’s possible there’s overdiagnosis even still but I think people overestimate the potential scale of it, 25% overdiagnosis seems plausible to me but people act like ADHD is just all made up and a way to drug children into being study zombies because they act too much like typical children. It’s profound how often people diagnosed with ADHD, when off medication, will just kill themselves accidentally in car accidents and drug overdoses far more than the general population. ADHD is not just labelling children with being disordered for being children. It’s labelling like the most inattentive, dysregulated, and hyperactive 5% or so of children. Children that act like 5 year olds when their peers act like 7 year olds. ADHD has been observed for centuries as well. ADHD in women tends to be diagnosed later in life and if you study certain subpopulations of women like teen mothers you will trip over ADHD and the diagnostic gap narrows with age. There’s also evidence like.. from the OP where we can observe neurological differences. I think my main problem with ADHD is labelling something that’s probably evolutionarily adaptive (People with ADHD love having unprotected sex early in life) as a disorder and deficit, but this gets into the philosophy of medicine. Dr. Russell Barkley is a good source of information and champion of the scientific mainstream view of ADHD.