High school teacher (grade 9) one of my best students got diagnosed with "muh ADHD" this week. Here's what he told me.
The doctor (a GP) gave him a list of ten questions. It went something like this:
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Do you sometimes struggle to finish tasks?
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Do you sometimes have problems paying attention in class?
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Do you sometimes get bored?
Who the F is going to say no to any of this? Anyway, he got diagnosed with muh ADHD and now he's on pills, probably for life. The pills he gets are amphetamines by the way. Yes, really.
I'm a fucking teacher and I get bored by my class sometimes. Guess I need speed too.
This is 90%+ student by the way. Imagine diagnosing a complex mental condition (if it even exists) in five minutes, tops, and then being put on pills for life.
Absolutely disgusting.
Yes. It exist. And it's over diagnosed. If you've ever put your ice cream in the cupboard, can't sit without bouncing your knee, listen to everyone but the person you're talking to; consistently... Every hour for thirty years, lose your keys wallet and phone; can make a list of things to do but lose the list, can't follow the list, and think you'll do better without it anyway; start cleaning your room and for hours later it's an even bigger mess, walk into rooms and forget why you went there, want to clean your room but then remember that before you can do that you need to get boxes at the store, go to the store, get home and then remember you were supposed to get boxes at the store; and if you're under pressure with tight timeliness and overwhelming odds of failure, people see you as way too calm and collected yet you somehow bang it out and save the day. You probably have ADHD. Otherwise you likely don't.