I think the author of the Time article can hardly complain if people are missing the point, since his article and book have the deliberately inflammatory title

I think the author of the Time article can hardly complain if people are missing the point, since his article and book have the deliberately inflammatory title of "ADHD Doesn't Exist." People need to realize the DSM, in its current state, is a massive cash cow for Big Pharma. When it comes to ADHD specifically, they needed a bigger market, welcome Adult ADHD. If I was going to design a "cash cow" in the pharma market... well, I certainly wouldn't know how, but I wouldn't pick a diagnosis where one of the most popular drugs (Adderall) is cheaply available in generic form and can only be produced in restricted quantities due to fed regulations because it's a controlled substance. In France, just 0.5% of children suffer from ADHD (opposed to ~5% in North America) Replace "suffer from" with "are diagnosed with." Remember, there are countries in the world where 0.0% of children are diagnosed with ADHD, and there are countries where depression and homosexuality "don't exist" because they're not recognized. It certainly seems likely that it's overdiagnosed in the U.S., but we can't learn anything concrete by looking at diagnosis rates in other countries. I'm much more interested in finding the actual problem, and fixing that. Amen to that, but telling people their condition "doesn't exist" (the author's words, not yours, obviously) is harmful, not helpful.