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Pride!? As far as I'm concerned, my ADHD can go f&&k itself! I don't know how many times I cursed and cried because I just couldn't focus on what I need to do,

Pride!? As far as I'm concerned, my ADHD can go f&&k itself! I don't know how many times I cursed and cried because I just couldn't focus on what I need to do, instead finding myself doing some BS that didn't matter. I'm more easily distracted than a rabbit, and sometimes am amazed at how little I give a crap about anything that doesn't matter to me in the short run. There are many factors at play, though, and maybe some people like their "neurodiversity". The way I see it, it's just a way to cope with the fact that these diseases are (currently) for the most part untreatable.

zxcdw 14y ago
Word, bro. Word. :(
jamesbritt 14y ago
Pride!? As far as I'm concerned, my ADHD can go f&&k itself! :) Whenever I hear someone say how cool it is that they have ADHD and how happy they are about it I get very skeptical. I don't want to armchair-diagnose people, but the inability to control you attention has serious downsides.
_delirium 14y ago
I think it varies greatly based on the specific condition and your circumstances. It's quite possible that some are closer to tradeoffs than unmitigated negatives, while others aren't. The positive/tradeoffs view seems to most actively be argued by high-functioning people with Aspergers, and considering that many do contribute quite interestingly to society in ways they might not have if it were "treatable", that's at least plausible to me. That's still consistent with considering ADHD to not be of those cases. Another way of viewing it is that there is a dispute over where to draw the line between "normal human variation" and "mental illness". People agree at the extremes: there must be some variation in personalities and cognitive styles that is not mental illness (e.g., introversion is not a mental illness, but a personality trait), and also some that seems pretty clearly "ill" (like some kinds of psychosis). But where between them to draw the line is less obvious, which is why psychiatrists get together every few years to debate it in a revision to the main diagnostic manual. Besides Aspergers, one active area of debate within psychiatry at the moment is the paraphilias: is being into S&M a mental illness, for example, or just natural variation within the diversity of sexual preferences?

zxcdw 14y ago

Word, bro. Word. :(

jamesbritt 14y ago

Pride!? As far as I'm concerned, my ADHD can go f&&k itself! :) Whenever I hear someone say how cool it is that they have ADHD and how happy they are about it I get very skeptical. I don't want to armchair-diagnose people, but the inability to control you attention has serious downsides.

_delirium 14y ago

I think it varies greatly based on the specific condition and your circumstances. It's quite possible that some are closer to tradeoffs than unmitigated negatives, while others aren't. The positive/tradeoffs view seems to most actively be argued by high-functioning people with Aspergers, and considering that many do contribute quite interestingly to society in ways they might not have if it were "treatable", that's at least plausible to me. That's still consistent with considering ADHD to not be of those cases. Another way of viewing it is that there is a dispute over where to draw the line between "normal human variation" and "mental illness". People agree at the extremes: there must be some variation in personalities and cognitive styles that is not mental illness (e.g., introversion is not a mental illness, but a personality trait), and also some that seems pretty clearly "ill" (like some kinds of psychosis). But where between them to draw the line is less obvious, which is why psychiatrists get together every few years to debate it in a revision to the main diagnostic manual. Besides Aspergers, one active area of debate within psychiatry at the moment is the paraphilias: is being into S&M a mental illness, for example, or just natural variation within the diversity of sexual preferences?