Some of the comments in this thread prove this correct - I'm so fuckin tired of people's "opinion" regarding ADHD, like I'm sorry you can't understand that brains can function in different ways. Growing up I received no help and had to adapt in various ways because of this bullshit viewpoint. Like ffs they gave me a separate desk away from the other students facing the wall and dumbfucks have the nerve to say that it doesn't exist
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Because humans oversimplify things in order to manage large amounts of information.
My brother got an ASD diagnosis, and it's impossible for me to get the other diagnosis. I just accepted that being where I am in my condition, means life is just not viable for me. I don't even do well in this community.
I'm just going to follow neurotypical advice until I'm dead. I have been able to get nothing done lately, and I don't feel like living anymore.
Hang in there mate.
ADHD can be medicated. It generates billions in profit. That, is the difference.
This is basically all of psychiatry in a nutshell.
- Subjectively group symptoms
- Search for any drug that treats any symptom.
- $$$$$!!!!
- Bonus: Deny, obscure, and oppose solutions to the actual social roots of the problem.
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This is the internet. You can say fuck. Fuck fuckety fuck fuck.
I think she's getting the meme from other social media sites where censorship is in place; I don't think she's adding the censorship herself
Fuck. Shit. Horse piss. Son of a two-balled bitch. Mother fucker!
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Days since the Internet forgot that profound autism exists.
They don't deserve to be eradicated either.
It's weird because terminally online people forget that profound autism exists but most irl people I talk to have no concept of autism besides profound autism.
Otoh, I think most people irl and online think of ADHD as quirky distracted ball of energy meanwhile severe ADHD is not actually seen as a disability but a personal failing or mistaken for the classic depression+anxiety combo.
this is why I still like "autism" as a term referring to severe / profound autism, and using a term still like Aspergers for those with high-functioning / mild autism (and maybe even including "broad autism phenotype")
Absolutely! I think this disconnect is such a big part on why conversations about diagnosis rates, prevention, and treatment break down.
I honestly believe the dsm5 should have kept Asperger's as a separate diagnosis than pooling all ASD together.
I think that's a fairly common sentiment. The severity of symptoms is a significant decider in how disordered someone is, and having clean deliniations makes sure that people with less disordered lives are not taking attenion awwy from the needs of those with more disordered lives.
But they do have clean deliniations. Aspergers is lvl 1 autism. I assume the reason for the change was to increase insurance recognition more than anything. Which is plenty sad on it's own.
Holy fuck this is fucked lol.
Y'all forgot real fucking 10 of 10 on the spectrum with adult violent outbursts and literally chaining down folks autism exists?
This whole, your grandfather has trains and was autistic hurr hurr is terrible and just making people more ignorant to challenges people face.
Yeah autism isn't all "lol I totes have autism because I like stuff" it can be a LOT more debilitating.
It's a spectrum from "Weird and Awkward all the time but outwardly living a pretty normal life to SCREAMING AT EVERYTHING AND BRING UNABLE TO COMPREHEND ANYTHING AROUND YOU.
When people think of autism now they don't think of the "non-functioning" side, they think of the high functioning side. Yes, high-functioning Autism sucks still, but it could be much, much worse.
ADHD rarely makes anyone "non-functional" it does make people barely-functional. Thus, no one cares. As you're doing "okay" usually.
Because the fascists needed a few scapegoats and they chose immigrants, trans, and autism.
I think ADHD was skipped because it's harder to say, and don't fit into their fiery speeches.
I mean RFK literally said he wanted to put people with ADHD into concentration camps
Ironic.
what?!
Autism got rolled in because the child abuser, disbarred doctor, scam artist, and fraudulent researcher Andrew Wakefield claimed vaccines caused autism and just about the entire Anglophone mainstream media spent years framing it as a dramatic story of a defiant doctor speaking out against the tyrannical scientific community. Often accompanied by videos of ~~autistic children being overstimulated by the presence of a camera crew and being made to melt down for the camera~~ the tragic horror of having to raise an autistic child.
This massively boosted antivax conspiracist subculture to the point of it being a significant electoral demographic. Billionaires then paid grifters to align them with greater alt-right conspiracism culture so they would vote far-right. Autism naturally slots into the untermensch role, with vaccination being analogized to blood libel.
So ADHD wasn't skipped, fascists just didn't have an ADHD-hating subculture to court.
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One can finally be made to work somewhat easily within capitalism.
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