Experts are warning that far from being over-diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.

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Overdiagnosis is not a problem, but misdiagnosis may be as people are driven into the private sector by long waits, and sadly, missed diagnoses remain common —Tamsin Ford

Experts are warning that far from being over-diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It’s the other way around. ADHD gives people an evolutionary advantage in crisis situations. Surviving through war, famine, and all the worst situations that humanity has survived through.

    ADHD isn’t incompatible with modern life because it got too hard. It’s incompatible with modern life because it got too easy.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Hmm. Yeah, we as a society want people who can at tedium repeat a basic task and then not interact with the world much more than that or what is sold to them.

      So I wouldn’t say easy as much as easy as it is very difficult for those with it but simplified. And the toys we have created to play with to distract them/us from how basic our life is are incredibly dangerously good at mimicking progress.

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        That’s such a pessimistic way of looking at it. All the efforts of humanity up until this point have gone towards sparing us from the horrors of what used to be the human condition. Generations and generations of toil and sacrifice so we could be bored at work instead of dying from the plague.

        I struggle with ADHD because I am one of the luckiest human beings born so far.

        • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Meh, just cause someone tried to do something nice for us doesnt mean the outcome actually was. We can keep adjusting and trying find what actually is good for people as a whole instead of free of effort.

          I don’t know but I don’t think its bad to have the opinion of the recipient as well, and its not like every day was a horror for them anymore than it is for ours. It ebbs and flows but if we made a wrong turn we can do our part to correct it.

          To a horrifying degree, work does define the human experience. Removing it isn’t lucky but a part of who we are being removed and I the name of a nameless idea’s of perfection. And I think its realism not pessimism to recognize that.

          • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 days ago

            and its not like every day was a horror for them anymore than it is for ours

            This is just not accurate.

            Infant mortality rate before the industrial revolution was like 30%. Something like 50% of children didn’t survive to their fifth birthday. But you think life was about as good then as it is today? I mean people still have to work for a living, so I guess it’s all a wash?

            I’m not suggesting that we can’t still improve. I’m just pointing out that you don’t seem to have the proper context for this stance you’ve taken.