This is the correct answer and I feel it's very important to emphasize this point. You can have "symptoms" of whatever the fuck, but in order for it to be considered a disorder, it must disrupt your life in some way. I usually lean more into the camp of just trying to be supportive of people when they speak about mental health disorders, but there are definitely those kids out there self-diagnosing disorders like they're collecting pokemon. As someone who legitimately has been diagnosed with multiple disorders by actual licensed psychological professionals, it's aggravating to see those kids infantilize mental health in that capacity, where it perpetuates the already uphill battle for many of us to be taken seriously in the first place. ADHD has absolutely ruined my life and I would absolutely(in a hypothetical) take a relatively high chance of death at "curing" my ADHD without a single hesitation. Life is hard enough with all these fucking disorders, definitely don't need the added burden of always feeling like I have to prove that I really am that fucked up.
Imagine being so much of a piece of shit that you ban people for talking about the genocide in Ukraine right now. Like, it's even more wild because they claim to be a communist, yet they're simping for a literal fascist state doing an old-school imperialist invasion.
Yup. It seems that whenever you stop being quite as inconvenient to neurotypicals, suddenly "you're fine, you just need to apply yourself".
Man, that's exactly how I got diagnosed again as an adult. I was taken off of medication and all that when I was 12, so I thought I didn't really have ADHD. Years later, I'm watching a video of "you might have ADHD if..." for laughs and it went something like:
"LAWL."
"LOL"
"lol"
"... ah, beans."
Yeah, the support of a blatantly fascist/imperialist state like Putin's Russia by self-described leftists is absolutely wild to me. I'm not convinced they're serious people. Like, yeah, there's some silly infighting between leftists online, but from my experience, it's usually tankies saying some smug bullshit blanket statements and defending authoritarian douchecanoes.
That's it exactly. I'm so sick of these dickheads jumping online and talking all the way out of their ass 'just refuse unlawful orders, bro'. Like their COC isn't gonna fuck them every kind of sideways for refusing orders via the UCMJ. Like, this isn't spending a weekend in jail and then it's over kinda shit, this will absolutely ruin your life. You could be spending years in the brig, reduced rank, reduced pay, possible dishonorable discharge while trying to fight the charges if you manage to win the case. On top of that, you want these soldiers/airmen to directly bring a legal fight to a federal administration that is likely to fuck them despite any legitimate grounds to refuse unlawful orders/conscientiously object? Get fucking real. Military personnel have the regular law AND the UCMJ to fucking deal with. These bros are fucking trapped.
I think this is a great question because it absolutely gets the point. The enemy is the system, not the people. This informs you both who and how you fight back. So when someone is saying something bigoted for religious reasons, the problem isn't necessarily that particular person, but the religious system that brainwashed them. In fact, it was a specific flavor of that religious system.
I think a more clear distinction can be found in feminism. Feminism isn't about fighting men, but fighting patriarchy. So, sure, there are men who are dickhead misogynists, but they are also potential allies that are also hurt by patriarchy. It's the system and those who specifically aim to perpetuate said system. Social philosophers tend to point to systems rather than people constantly, because it's so common for people to point out symptoms rather than the cause. So when we know to identify patriarchy rather than misogynists, yeah, we'll still call out misogynist men for sure, but also women that perpetuate patriarchy.
So if I'm blaming the system rather than the person, maybe I'm recognizing the religious person's commitment to truth and appealing to that rather than labeling them the enemy and writing them off completely. I think something that gets lost in all the polarizing bullshit as of recent is recognizing that a great way to make another bigot not exist is to persuade them to not be a bigot anymore. The enemy isn't people, it's the fucking system. Like the great poets have said: "Don't blame it on the Needy, don't blame it on the Poor, don't blame it on the Jew, blame it on the system. Blame it on the fucking system."
Speaking in a more meta-context, this is exactly it in the political world. In playing politics, you gotta play the political game. There are plenty of things to criticize the dems for, but man do most people in semi-recent history tend to oversimplify things. It's just not as simple as throwing a filibuster at 'the other side' every now and then, you've gotta consider political capital, optics, legal maneuvers, precedence, etc. If you run up on the congressional floor and decide to filibuster all on your own with no support, you're just a jackass wasting everyone's time, likely harming your own cause in the process. Politics isn't speeches back and forth with some money thrown around, it's about building and wisely wielding social power. That includes knowing how to build solidarity with others in other constituencies.
It really is just simplistic bullshit that seems to trip them up, isn't it? As a passionate lover of philosophy, I've come to a pretty good understanding of the sheer magnitude of what it takes to be considered an "expert" in any subject. And, hoo boy, my radical commitment to what is true has only served to illustrate to myself how much I lack in understanding... pretty much anything. I'm not one of those jackholes who do that smarmy-ass "I know nothing", so I'll admit that I understand a hell of a lot more than the average person in political theory and general pragmatic governance. So it's both infuriating and baffling to me how often the average 'right-winger' decisively demonstrates how little they understand any political subject they have no business holding such a strong and certain opinion on. And really, that also applies for most people willing to talk politics in America. Like, how the fuck are people's opinions so fucking strong for how shallow their position is???
Right, climate change, the thing that boomers caused and definitely not these huge corporations perpetuating a system making humanity dependent on fossil fuels. It was a generation defined by generally common experiences and not some dickheads on the boards of fossil fuel corporations covering up and then spinning up a disinformation campaign against the overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic climate change. No war but class war; know your enemy.
OPHA MAE JOHNSON, 1918
ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder, either you're born with it or you're not. Sure, lots of things fight for our attention and that probably affects us in some way, but distractability isn't the same thing as ADHD. It's primarily a regulation disorder rather than 'can't focus disease'. Where I think you bring up a good point in a mechanism that probably reveals ADHD in some people, I would definitely give pushback on what appears to be a suggestion that the advertising industry as it exists causes ADHD. I don't think any serious psychological professional would make that assertion.