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The guide mostly only talks about children, and then about people who overcame ADHD? Yeah no.
I thought that. Famous people diagnosed with ADHD might be better wording.
What an awful font for the types
i love cool and unnecessary fonts but this design in particular just hurts to look at.
And the amount of undiagnosed adults is missing. There are very little reasons why ADHD would just disappear when growing up. People simply suppress their emotions.
It’s also conveniently missing that adults affected by ADHD are up to 6x more likely to also have depression than adults without ADHD.
Kind of an important point if you want your kid to actually live to adulthood.Yeah. It’s annoying when people pretend these things are superpowers by ignoring the negative effects which stigmatizes anyone struggling with it.
“There are famous people who succeeded with it! Many become business owners! Why are you still you? You’re obviously not trying.”
And let’s see some statistics on those business owners.
Are they actually successful, or just 3x more likely to start a business on impulse and then 5x more likely to go bankrupt because of ADHD?
And your ADHD kid is 5 times more likely to use Linux or be on Lemmy lol
ADHD isn’t an emotion that can be suppressed.
Most adults develop cooping mechanism. Some of which are describe here such as having a routine. That does mean they don’t have ADHD thought. Most are simply never diagnosed.
41 is less than 43…
Also, I in 10 children are diagnosed with ADHD, but 1 in 20 have symptoms? Does that mean we’re diagnosing a bunch of asymptomatic kids?
They should have said 59% vs 57%…no clue why they choose that. I did a double take on it as well
1 in 10 US children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and 1 in 20 have ADHD symptoms?
Did I read that right? Half of kids diagnosed with ADHD in the US have no symptoms?
Generally it would mean “and another 1 in 20”. So then of the kids who are not diagnosed, 1 in 20 still show symptoms.
Bro, what? Lots of shit in this is straight up untrue. Lots of y’all already pointed out some internal in inconsistencies, but there are some fundamental claims that are just incorrect, such as ADHD having to do with the inability to focus, rather than the inability to regulate attention, which is a very important distinction. ADHD is primarily a disorder of regulation. Also, I will loudly echo what someone else also pointed out: no, you do not “overcome” ADHD. There is no cure as it is a neurodevelopmental disorder. You have the brain you have. While it’s true that some number of people “grow out of” ADHD as they become an adult, many in the academic field think a good amount of those may just have come up with better coping mechanisms or are high-functioning in some other capacity.
Also, missing in the infographic are the two most helpful treatment options for anyone with ADHD: psychostimulants and consistent exercise. Stimulants are very effective for treating ADHD and actually have a lower risk for abuse compared to those without ADHD. Consistent exercise has also shown to be very reliable in reducing symptom severity, although some more studies are needed on long term effects(like, years/decades). Routines are great for people with ADHD and all, but are extremely vulnerable to discontinuation upon any disruption.
On top of that, a great injustice done by focusing(heh) on whether or not someone with ADHD is paying attention and drawing it up to an inability to do so, rather than an inability to regulate attention, is that it ignores all the other well documented areas of difficulty in regulation. Emotional volatility, sleep irregularity, inconsistent social interaction, variable cognitive recall, and especially executive dysfunction are all major parts of ADHD that strongly earn the criteria to warrant the title ‘Disorder’, as these are things that will certainly disrupt someone’s life while they occur on a daily basis. If someone with ADHD is having difficulty completing a task due to their sudden inability to regulate their executive functions, well golly, don’t they look like “they’re just lazy” or “they just don’t want it bad enough” or “they’re not even trying” or “they just need to quit fucking around and do it” or any other unhelpful and inaccurate cliche, when in reality, they’re struggling mightily to turn their intent into action because of their ADHD. Funny that the disorder is named after the two most prominent observations that someone without the disorder would be inconvenienced by.
Thank you as an adult with lifelong severe combined type I was sick of the myths as a teenager and as I near 30 I’m angry. My parents weren’t told “hey, her memory is possibly gonna suck and she’s gonna probably need some extra coaching on emotional regulation, especially at a young age.” Instead I got yelled at for crying over small things and told that I have meds so I should be perfectly normal.
Meanwhile now at my age I have to fight against doctors regularly to maintain my prescription and I have to phrase shit so as to not sound desperate for my “function as an adult” pills that let me do things like drive, maintain employment, and stay off my wife’s nerves
Reads like my school report
