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I have had to live with ADHD for over fifty years. That "tweet" is not ADHD. Not every aspect of being human is a disorder.
Impulsively buying stuff, hyperfixating on it for some time, losing that fixation and then having problems with keeping it in your routine as a habit is very much ADHD. ADHD is not 1s ans 0s, how people experience it varies from person to person and the severity of their ADHD. If you didn't have much problems with that in your life then I'm happy for you but I for example wasn't lucky enough with dna and stuff.
I very much understand hyperfixation and then moving on but that's not the example given. Buying a new toy, playing with it for two weeks then moving on is basic human behavior, not hyperfixation. Buying a blender then becoming so obsessed with it that you become fixated with it to the point where you think about it constantly, read, research and basically know more about it than could possibly be necessary then poof...gone, is hyperfixation.
Over diagnosing can lead to over correction. This is how we end up with basically normal people getting pumped full of meds that were not designed for them. Someone reads examples like the one posted, talks to a doctor and the next thing you know are on a cocktail of Adderall and antidepressants, which in turn destroys their ability to sleep, so then they also end up taking Ambien. So on, and so forth.
I am not minimizing the disruptive effects of ADHD, obviously. I am suggesting that EVERYONE take posts like this with a big grain of salt
Yes, this tweet is very routine human behavior.
Tons of intense, short-lived hobbies is one of the biggest hallmarks of ADHD.
This is how we end up with basically normal people getting pumped full of meds that were not designed for them. Someone reads examples like the one posted, talks to a doctor and the next thing you know are on a cocktail of Adderall and antidepressants, which in turn destroys their ability to sleep, so then they also end up taking Ambien. So on, and so forth.
Over-prevalence of this notion does a lot more harm to me than people wrongly identifying with the OP.
And that's really more the responsibility of the doctor than the meme viewer anyway.
ADHD is underdiagnosed, not over diagnosed. That's is a really bad myth originating from parents who refuse to believe that their kids are different.
It's far from that easy to get meds and a diagnosis, you know. You need to take an evaluation that lasts at least 3 hours in total. You are effectively saying that doctors don't know what they're doing, and that you know more than the literal experts.
It's far from that easy to get meds and a diagnosis, you know. You need to take an evaluation that lasts at least 3 hours in total.
That wasn't my experience at all. The meds definitely helped me but they also triggered high blood pressure, funky heart beats, and ultimately panic attacks. Then they gave me effexor for the panic attacks which made me twitch. There was no three hour eval for none of it. Doc just chatted me for like fifteen minutes about my struggles at work and gave me a script. I'm happy for those it helps but it took me years to clear that shit from my system. I rather forget half the shit I'm doing at any time than rely on meds again. Thankfully a few life hacks I picked up in Reddit have really helped me something serious.
Just also be aware that leading experts in ADHD believe it is significantly under diagnosed, so we should be careful to thread this needle. On one hand, everything you said, but on the other is people who do need help not seeking it because they feel like their just a PoS trying to blame their failings on some disorder they don’t actually have.
I was part of the latter, finally getting diagnosed at 27, which is probably about 10 years later than it needed to be due to stigma of “over diagnosis” of adhd and “over medication”.
Buying something new, using it then moving on is a neurotypical behavior.
Maybe the people who liked the post also have ADHD and understand that this is a single example of a trend and not a one time thing.
Woah now, assuming people on the internet are real human beings with the ability to read context and understand complex ideas? Are you crazy?
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Have you been on the Internet? What you're describing is a statistical anomoly.
Thank you. I was confused for a bit and pretty sure this is common stuff.
If it's a pattern, this is absolutely found in a lot of people diagnosed with ADHD. But this Twitter user is clearly making a joke because they're using a silly reference.
Would you like them to go through all the nuances of ADHD for you so you don't need to do an "um, actually" like a professional online forum debater?
You missed the point. They're equating an infrequent experience for neurotypical people to a facet of everyday life for those with ADHD.
It's not about blenders. It's that folks like us tend to go hard on new obsessions and then promptly lose interest.
This community has ONE rule, and ya broke it. Good job. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4051762
I have had to live with ADHD for over fifty years.
Me too.
That “tweet” is not ADHD.
I did this exact same thing with smoothies. Strawberry smoothies. I made them daily for about 3 weeks...15 years ago. Haven't made one since.
And I'm also tired of people constantly downplaying my patterns, and always saying it's not "really" ADHD, then wondering why I'm acting so odd and different. Or why I'm struggling with stuff even though "everybody does that". This sort of mentality has hurt me massively.
Maybe it's more nuanced than "this is adhd" and "this is not". Maybe it had to do with the intensity and rate of occurrence as well? But do you feel that a tweet needs to include all the goddamn nuances that come with a disorder that is primarily diagnosed by the intensity and disruptiveness of its symptoms just to make a joke?