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[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I honestly feel modern take on ADHD is just a label for people that don't fit into how society wants it.

Tens of thousands of years, we nurtured those that picked up on the butterfly. Those minds will always be critical to human survival. But it's only recently, incompatibility with the standard that causes need for more effort, "Well, they must be broken".

Nope. They never were. We just got real bad at bringing out the best in everyone. At this rate of classification down the path we're going, it'll be weird to not have ADHD.

[-] ThoGot@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

At this rate of classification down the path we're going, it'll be weird to not have ADHD

This reads like there's more people with ADHD than there were in earlier times (which we don't know).
Testing just got a lot better than it was

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub -1 points 1 day ago

Actually I think there is way more people with mental issues now. I don't think it's just the testing. It's easy to spot them anyways.

[-] ThoGot@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I'd maybe agree if we'd be talking about depression or anxiety, which you can get during your lifetime, but ADHD (or autism) is just the way your brain is wired and can't be "healed" like some other mental illnesses

[-] Bunbury@feddit.nl 1 points 9 hours ago

True, but that can definitely be influenced in utero. For all we know something like the microplastics we now all have in our bloodstream might cause the brains of fetuses to develop differently. Also there’s a genetic component. What if people with ADHD are currently more likely to have children now than a few decades ago.

I’d argue there’s many potential reasons why there might be more people with ADHD now. I’d be surprised if the rate is fairly constant. Not that that’s easy to measure due to changes in how we diagnose (as others have already pointed out).