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You just described me perfectly. I'm currently at the "What do you mean 'I'm ADHD as fuck'" step.

ADHD is a great example, because EVERYONE has flips of attention or forgets what they were saying. They ARE normal behaviors, they just happen way more often to people with the disorder.

That's also why they're so easy to rationalize away.

I say this because there is too much self-diagnosis going on and too much trivialization, not because people excuse their disorders instead of seek help. Most people that need help cannot even consider getting it due to cost.

The gross harm trivialization does should not be sidestepped just because it can be said to happen sometimes. I do not speak from personal experience, but from talking to 'normies'. THEY do not understand how nasty the real disorders are, and they also use this exact kind of joke to dismiss it.

I want to DE-normalize the use of the medical terms by non-medical people, not to raise awareness of how many people have disorders. The joke as portayed in the post is normalizing the disorders, not raising awareness. Someone disinterested in their task shares A LOT of qualities and thought processes of an ADHD person. Of course a psychologist or psychiatrist should easily tell the difference... but do the uneducated? Are the teenagers and immature who are willing to wear a condition without diagnosis able to tell?

Mind, I still laughed at the joke, I just want to push back against some interpretations of it.

"ADHD are just people with normal impulses, but more frequent and less able to control them"

I mean that is a pretty good description of it. The impulses aren't a neurodivergent trait, it's the frequency and reduced ability to control them that are neurodivergent.