ADHD

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A casual community for people with ADHD

Values:

Acceptance, Openness, Understanding, Equality, Reciprocity.

Rules:

No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments.
No porn, gore, spam, or advertisements allowed.
Do not request for donations.
Do not link to other social media or paywalled content.
Do not gatekeep or diagnose.
Mark NSFW content accordingly.
No racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, or ageism.
Respectful venting, including dealing with oppressive neurotypical culture, is okay.
Discussing other neurological problems like autism, anxiety, ptsd, and brain injury are allowed.
Discussions regarding medication are allowed as long as you are describing your own situation and not telling others what to do (only qualified medical practitioners can prescribe medication).

Encouraged:

Funny memes.
Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
Questions on confusing situations.
Seeking and sharing support.
Engagement in our values.

Relevant Lemmy communities:

Neurodivergent Life Hacks

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

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"ugh so many ppl think they have adhd nowadays" (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The drug part is interesting. I guess you really can't just take the easy route of diagnosis...
As for the ADHD respresentation, I blame the discord between nts from few people and charities attempting to represent ADHD and the out-of-touchness of nts for attempting to turn adhd into a "quirky superpower disorder" while it is actually a near-crippling disablity. I can see the good in ADHD, but I classified those under something different, which I dubbed the "extended focus abilities" and those most likely happen, due to the brain having to compansate for the lack of pfc through occipital focus and an overall outside -> inside processing (which might be one of the reasons why ADHD "looks" like autism if you ask me). and of course, adhd can be regarded as something "good" when the hyperfocus is actually rather benefitial (An example is Dream whom most likely hyperfocuses on Minecraft for example, so obv...).