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Prevalence of adhd in countries varies from 1 to 25% and is correleted to the marketing of the biggest drug used to cure it.
You probably don't have adhd. You're probably just a normal person in a society that wants you burnt out.
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.
oh fuck off. You dont get diagnosed because everything is fine. And while some of the dysfunction can be chalked up to how society is structured, being able to function as an adult is for the most part, not something you can work around. The ADHD NEEDS to be treated.
Homosexuality doesn't need to be treated. Yet people were not so long ago. So, as a matter of fact, yes, you get diagnosed eventhough everything is fine.
Again, adhd is a real condition, but not so common as OP picture implies. OP picture is a symptom of a competitive society (that's what liberalism do). Competitivity means you need to specialize to succeed. If you can't specialize well, you fail a life because your society decided about that.
Liberal societies are sick. Being shy isn't a condition. Being black isn't a condition. Not being a monomaniac isn't a condition. Being depressed or burnt out is a condition.
fuck. off.