25% would be one in every four people. That’s a lot.
Even if we take a geometric mean on that, 5% is one in every 20. That means most larger groups you’ve ever been a part of, like a class or something, likely had an ADHD person. It’s about the same level of prevalence as Asian people in the US. 5% is not negligible. Even 1% isn’t negligible on a society scale, and if you’re talking to a community focused on a specific thing, something that only already to 1% of people in an unfiltered sample will be very common in that community.
On top of that, mental conditions like ADHD are not a binary thing that flips in your brain, where you either have it and you get all of the effects or you get none. It’s a spectrum, it’s a fuzzy category to begin with (which accounts for the wide range of percentages you see), you can feel very ADHD-like effects even if you don’t meet the ever-changing criteria of a medical diagnosis. Which is why it changes so much to begin with, because there is no simple marker like with a virus.
In either case, don’t gatekeep a condition, especially not in a way that suggests that people should just do better. It’s the equivalent of saying “don’t be sad” to a depressed person.
I’m not gatekeeping or denying anything. But many people are not ill, they simply aren’t fitting the society standards. Sometimes for a good reason. There’s nothing to succeed or to fail in life for example. And sometimes it’s the society that discriminate people, not people that are I’ll. Social disorders are a very much a true thing, but society disorders also are a thing.
It is a basic strategy of liberalism to make people believe that they are the problem, and they should fix themselves, eventhough many problems come from liberalism itself.
In brief, sometimes you are not the problem, society is. See a doctor if you’re in doubt.
25% would be one in every four people. That’s a lot.
Even if we take a geometric mean on that, 5% is one in every 20. That means most larger groups you’ve ever been a part of, like a class or something, likely had an ADHD person. It’s about the same level of prevalence as Asian people in the US. 5% is not negligible. Even 1% isn’t negligible on a society scale, and if you’re talking to a community focused on a specific thing, something that only already to 1% of people in an unfiltered sample will be very common in that community.
On top of that, mental conditions like ADHD are not a binary thing that flips in your brain, where you either have it and you get all of the effects or you get none. It’s a spectrum, it’s a fuzzy category to begin with (which accounts for the wide range of percentages you see), you can feel very ADHD-like effects even if you don’t meet the ever-changing criteria of a medical diagnosis. Which is why it changes so much to begin with, because there is no simple marker like with a virus.
In either case, don’t gatekeep a condition, especially not in a way that suggests that people should just do better. It’s the equivalent of saying “don’t be sad” to a depressed person.
I’m not gatekeeping or denying anything. But many people are not ill, they simply aren’t fitting the society standards. Sometimes for a good reason. There’s nothing to succeed or to fail in life for example. And sometimes it’s the society that discriminate people, not people that are I’ll. Social disorders are a very much a true thing, but society disorders also are a thing.
It is a basic strategy of liberalism to make people believe that they are the problem, and they should fix themselves, eventhough many problems come from liberalism itself.
In brief, sometimes you are not the problem, society is. See a doctor if you’re in doubt.