Werner thinks it's completely normal. Which makes me think someone hasn't been diagnosed yet.
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I wonder how strong the correlation between appreciation of Herzog’s work and ADHD/autism would be. I imagine it’s significantly positive.
what a nothing burger
An argument i heard along these lines:
"What is neurodiversity? What is neurotypicality? Because if you're definining a "normal" and a "non-normal" brain, then what datum (baseline) or point of reference do you use to determine who is normal or not?
The answer is productivity and subservience. The neurodiverse person is generally just someone who breaks from the anticipated program, doesn't produce value for an employer ... "
Same guy went on to suggest that ADHD people thrived throughout history when we weren't all tied to such
My thoughts on this are that even if ADHD is "not real" in some way, the help available for it is essential healthcare and should be made available to people anyway. If it is real in a very definite way (e.g an ADHD gene that could be turned on or off) then it should be noted that even non-ADHD people benefit from the psychological and medical help directed towards sufferers of ADHD. So nobody should take our care away.
If ADHD is 'not real' in some way, we are all still suffering those symptoms; smartphone addiction, crippling disconnection, brain fog, exhaustion, difficulty socialising and anxiety. They've gone up more recently, suggesting either than modern times are worse for ADHD people or that ADHD is "not real" and rather the combination of multiple symptoms like these - hence the problem being modern life in general.
It is a political term. Is used as a way of self organizing.
It’s like we (humanity) are clustering similar symptoms until specific patterns emerge that forward our ability towards treatment… like modern viral theory.