WHO to recognize gaming disorder as mental health condition

That's another way of putting it. I'm not sure the majority are neurotypical however.

I think, rather, "neurotypicality" is a background assumption of certain institutions because it's easier to design for an average even if it doesn't exist (no 1 human being is mean in every respect).

However those who experience life-long mental health, and esp. for most of their childhood, I think are overwhelmingly "conservative" in their personalities. And I think these sort do tend to find themselves in more elite/visible positions.

Political systems represent those who hold power. They do not represent a majority (power is the mechanism of representation, not mere existence).

In democracies, there is more "tending towards the majority". But still, it is very much a symptom of who can be elected, who is elected, etc.

A dog with three legs is much worse at being a dog.

There is really something it is to be a human, and it isnt just defined by culture and present-day society.

We live on earth. We eat food. We socialize. We, by being human, do a very large number of things merely because we are human. And if you damage part of our body, we can't do those things. And doing those things is a fundamental part of what we do.

ADHD really is a neurological impairment on this scale. It isn't "being less productive". It is a torture, a trauma, an on-going alienating, destabilizing impairment.

You might say "well couldn't there be a society where ADHD was an advantage"... i'd say basically No, not without changing the human species.

Yes, maybe we could imagine one. A society perfectly designed for people with ADHD, but when you describe that society in detail, you'd discover its profoundly impairing to people without ADHD.

As in, imagine we all lived as if we had no arms. That would be an extreme oppression to the almost everyone who does. And that's because on-earth, doing the things human beings do, arms are inherently part of doing those things well. That is why not having arms is a disability, not a lifestyle choice.

Similarly for vision, hearing, etc.

ADHD is an impairment to advanced cognitive function. It's an impairment to your minds ability to "see" itself.

The moment we start to say, of children with ADHD, that they should have this impairment.. that it's our "culture" that decides this impairment is bad... I think that's a gross abuse of those children.

It's turning your own lack of dependence on pharmacology, your own health, into a trap for people who do need it.

I think this is one of my main points: if such a large percentage of the population has something that we think of as a large negative, it's probably a good time to take a step back and wonder if we aren't understanding the whole picture because evolution tends to take care of such low hanging fruit.

Did you even read my reply?

I looked at those studies. They do not at all address issues like PTSD, personality disorders, trauma and other mental health issues which, for example, would certainly characterize huge numbers of people in the interwar and post-war period. Yet, where as these numbers?

PTSD didnt exist at the time. Trauma wasnt even considered, in part, because it was so wide spread.

Domestic violence, murder, rape, assault, theft, etc. were crazy high only 30 years ago.

Western societies were incredibly violent and predatory placeo, and this gets significantly worse the further you go back. At the beginning of the 20th C. 1 in 20 women were dying in childbirth, murder was 10-a-penny, almost everyone was impoverished. Children routinely went hungry.

But oh year. Now we're a bit more depressed.

THe 20th C. was a century of trauma. Child abuse was institutionalized. Domestic violence was how families worked. WW1, WW2, Vietnam (and many other wars) left a generation of men absolutely traumatized.

The studies have no reliable data to work with, as there was no empirical psychology for the bulk of the 20th C. collecting societal-level information on mental health.

Subjective "happiness" reporting has not much to do with mental health. A financially secure person who was routinely sexually assaulted as a child may well report being happier in 1985 than a poorer, less economically stable person today with otherwise excellent mental health.

For several decades economic securiyt has been decreasing in the west causing people to feel less "happy" (ie., to be more often worrying). This has an impact on their mental health, but I'm sceptical it comes close to the impact of the vietnam war.

The 20th C. was horrific and a horror for everyone. Any "psychologist" nostalgic for the 20th C. either knows nothing of psychology, nothing of history or both.