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Needing to fix ADHD is itself a cultural thing. Back 100 years ago, you didn’t need an 8 hour attention span to sit at a desk staring at a monitor while the AC

Needing to fix ADHD is itself a cultural thing. Back 100 years ago, you didn’t need an 8 hour attention span to sit at a desk staring at a monitor while the AC dries your eyeballs until they feel like foil scratching on a blackboard

notfromhere 1y ago
100 years ago people smoked like chimneys and were basically self-medicating with nicotine. The classic 'coffee and a cigarette' breakfast is the most ADHD-coded thing imaginable.
squigz 1y ago
No instead you might sit at a desk writing by lamplight, having your eyes dried out by smoke, assailed by the smell of horse dung (among other things) I really don't understand this idea that people with ADHD didn't suffer in the past or that the problems we face would magically disappear if society was just organized a bit differently. Would it alleviate a lot of the pressure? Certainly, but it wouldn't do away with the problems. It's the same with autism.
danaris 1y ago
There are ways in which ADHD is a societal issue rather than an individual one, sure. But they're not the whole of ADHD. If I habitually lose track of time, get wrapped up in the game that I'm playing, and forget to meet up with my friends when we've agreed to because of it, I'm going to lose friends. That's not a societal problem, that's just how relationships work. If I absentmindedly leave a half-eaten yogurt out on the counter, and my clutter blindness makes me forget it's there for a week, it's going to grow mold. That's not a cultural thing, that's just how mold works. And so on.
- skeezyboy 1y ago
  >If I habitually lose track of time why have you decided this is unfixable? > If I absentmindedly leave a half-eaten yogurt out on the counter, and my clutter blindness makes me forget sorry, what? clutter-blindness? is this a clinical testable condition, or just something invented for adhd?
teamonkey 1y ago
100 or even 200 years ago there were industrial and bookkeeping jobs that would have been just as difficult for those with ADHD.

notfromhere 1y ago

100 years ago people smoked like chimneys and were basically self-medicating with nicotine. The classic 'coffee and a cigarette' breakfast is the most ADHD-coded thing imaginable.

squigz 1y ago

No instead you might sit at a desk writing by lamplight, having your eyes dried out by smoke, assailed by the smell of horse dung (among other things) I really don't understand this idea that people with ADHD didn't suffer in the past or that the problems we face would magically disappear if society was just organized a bit differently. Would it alleviate a lot of the pressure? Certainly, but it wouldn't do away with the problems. It's the same with autism.

danaris 1y ago

There are ways in which ADHD is a societal issue rather than an individual one, sure. But they're not the whole of ADHD. If I habitually lose track of time, get wrapped up in the game that I'm playing, and forget to meet up with my friends when we've agreed to because of it, I'm going to lose friends. That's not a societal problem, that's just how relationships work. If I absentmindedly leave a half-eaten yogurt out on the counter, and my clutter blindness makes me forget it's there for a week, it's going to grow mold. That's not a cultural thing, that's just how mold works. And so on.

skeezyboy 1y ago
>If I habitually lose track of time why have you decided this is unfixable? > If I absentmindedly leave a half-eaten yogurt out on the counter, and my clutter blindness makes me forget sorry, what? clutter-blindness? is this a clinical testable condition, or just something invented for adhd?

teamonkey 1y ago

100 or even 200 years ago there were industrial and bookkeeping jobs that would have been just as difficult for those with ADHD.