This is no way disregards the difficulty of living with an actually severe case of ADHD but is not what most of these people are dealing with.

EDIT: many seem to have misunderstood what I mean by this. I’m not saying these people are only claiming to have ADHD to use it as an excuse. What I mean, is that they may very well do have, and they’re using it as an excuse. Mostly to themselves.

  • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
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    TL:DR You’re not lazy, there’s brain chemistry at work

    There’s a depression comorbidity with ADHD for a lot of adults.

    https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-017-1463-3

    Which can lead to executive function disorder, so you “know” you can do t you just cannot find the energy or will to.

    https://psychcentral.com/adhd/adhd-executive-dysfunction

    This is why early on stimulants were perscribed to patients with ADD/ADHD

    https://www.additudemag.com/history-of-adhd/amp/

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      I wonder how much of ADHD could be alleviated society wise. I think of it like how we made curbs to be wheelchair accessible which of course made it stroller, bike, wagon accesible. Its like if we had single payer healthcare in a system with one record system then we can just worry about getting to the doctor and being healthy and not how to pay or getting things from one doc to another or redoing tests. And if we had the pre filled tax return we can update or sign. Its like the world is made to be hard and it hurts everyone. both those overwelmed and those who can handle it but its still not great. We should be able to concentrate on what we need to concentrate on.