this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
93 points (91.9% liked)

ADHD

9613 readers
95 users here now

A casual community for people with ADHD

Values:

Acceptance, Openness, Understanding, Equality, Reciprocity.

Rules:

Encouraged:

Relevant Lemmy communities:

Autism

ADHD Memes

Bipolar Disorder

Therapy

Mental Health

Neurodivergent Life Hacks

lemmy.world/c/adhd will happily promote other ND communities as long as said communities demonstrate that they share our values.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many of us are undiagnosed. My mom said I never got treatment because I wasn't disruptive in class. ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ADHD is both overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed at the same time for me... I blame misinformation and overall confusion regarding ADHD... When I talked about my symptoms to others, a common answer I would get is "common among people" - if my pratically extreme executive dysfunction and lower leg muscle destroying hyperactivity was actually common among people than the global society wouldn't last a week

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even with this, I feel like the person is still "gatekeeping" ADHD. I can understand where they are coming from, but there are many undiagnosed adhd people around after all...