ADHD memes

Neurodivergence only becomes a disability in context of the society you live.

The medication serves to make your brain chemistry adapt to the fact you live in a world that is increasingly more tailored for the majority of people who are differently wired then us. Its also focused on solving what other people find problematic and less what people themselves need.

Some people perceive an adhd/autism epidemic, my take is that as high pressure society evolves it becomes increasingly harder to fit the norms, people that once did now don’t.

A good example is how i am very sensative to certain artificial light sources that give me a literal headache. If i lived in the past, those light sources would not exist to trouble me. If everyone else would get the same headache wed simply stop producing that type of cheap lights.

Even in the best circumstances, ADHD still produces worse outcomes for many things: relationships, risk taking behavior (e.g. driving recklessly), unhealthy stimulation seeking (e.g. drugs). We are very capable of screwing up our lives even without society's help.

I don't need medication to function in society.

I need medication to function when left to my own devices.

two things can be true

not-so-fun fact: animals held in captivity tend to experience far more anxiety than out in the wild. Having predators chase you is less stressful than being locked in a box with little to threaten you.

Some postulate that civilization is just humans keeping themselves in captivity.

I'm sure there are all kinds of different cases, but let me just say that I didn't have to hustle nearly this hard just to get by in w 2005. It was fine that I was "absent minded" but now it's like everyone's got to be full-on all the time.

Like wtf happened?? Things used to be chill, now we're fighting over the meagrest scraps.

I was just chatting with some people about how I've discovered how bad habit and conditioning affect neurotypical people. This was in the context of visual, audio, and other gender cues that cause NT people to misgender trans and non binary people. I had recently discovered how the gender conditioning can make it difficult for NT people to change when things are automatic in their brains. They aren't used to having to concentrate to remember words like i do, so they don't have that easy place to inject conscious decisions.

So yeah, there are some things we are superior at and if NT people would just accommodate our disadvantages, our advantages could benefit them. But the current political atmosphere is isolationist and individualism, so they want everything to benefit them since they can't stand to collaborate to get the benefits we offer.

We are the society.

Yes