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I was just writing two days ago about how ADHD is overdiagnosed and our system is just set up to try to coerce kids to be convenient for the system: https://new
by EGreg 1y ago
I was just writing two days ago about how ADHD is overdiagnosed and our system is just set up to try to coerce kids to be convenient for the system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490274 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490274
There I put forward some proposals at the end
- burnt-resistor 1y agoI have under-diagnosed ADHD because my father was a Fox News disciple, science-hating, arrogant bigot who believed ADHD was a "conspiracy" of anti-male leftists.
- EGreg 1y agoI don't know about your particular situation, but I'm speaking systemically, and about large trends and socio-economic realities that affect people. But having said that, I'd be very interested to hear what you think the consequences of the under-diagnosis were, realistically. As far as anti-science, I think people on the left and right of the political spectrum are anti-science, at least to the same degree that term is thrown around.
- burnt-resistor 1y ago> I don't know about your particular situation, but I'm speaking systemically, and about large trends and socio-economic realities that affect people. You're minimizing and trivializing my situation and opinion as invalid. > But having said that, I'd be very interested to hear what you think the consequences of the under-diagnosis were, realistically. Well, being called "weird" and routinely dissed and dismissed as some sort of innate character flaw. > As far as anti-science, I think people on the left and right of the political spectrum are anti-science, at least to the same degree that term is thrown around. I'm not familiar with many or hardly anyone (except crazies) on the left being anti-science. What's your evidence for this?