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Agreed. The amount of ADHD propaganda posted here is alarming.
The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
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Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it is a genetic neurological condition related to dopamine and not due to iPads.
You say that like it's a fact but diagnosis is not based on genetic/neurological testing, it's mostly just observing behavior in interviews.
Twin and family studies reveal that it is genetic but don't reveal how genes cause it or which ones are involved.
Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#93I just started working with a new team a few weeks ago. So far I've had "nice to meet you" calls with six or seven of the people on this team. And nearly half of them mentioned "by the way, I have ADHD, just so you know." And since I share so many characteristics with these individuals, now _I'm_ wondering if I have ADHD. Certainly the never-ending Instagram ads want me to think so. Or is this becoming a blanket term…
"And nearly half of them mentioned "by the way, I have ADHD" Statistically that seems rather unlikely, so I wonder if people are being over-diagnosed?
The statistics you're not citing are from history. It could be that in the past it has been majorly under-diagnosed.
Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#94Can people stop a second with ADHD-as-a-disease? It’s the society that’s sick!! Prevalence in the US is 10% of the general population. Many of whom have active social lives and high paying jobs. Those people play the game they have been told to play. Corporate bullshit, boring tasks, endless meetings, and then they complain to their doctors they don’t feel like it fits. Something’s afoot. and the doctors say: “right…
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
― Theodore Kaczynski
Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#95So much of this is familiar, the timeliness, forgetfulness, the blurting things out, but especially that feeling of "FFS, why can't I do these things like everyone else, I suck". I was incredibly lucky, once I got into software dev, that my untreated ADHD often manifested in hyperfocus, so I could deliver large amounts of business value in bursts, that meant my other foibles were tolerable. Of course, my spending 20…
> "Just write a list, how hard is that?"
1. Remember to keep a list
2. Remember to update the list
3. Remember to check the list
4. Start a new list because I can't remember if / why I care about anything on the old list
(Personally, I've never started a list but I can imagine how it would go.)
Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you familiar with 'amphetamines'?
Typical use of 'narcotics' means opiates and similar drugs (narc = sleep), and not amphetamines.
My mistake, I meant it in more of an 'often-abused mind-altering addictive scheduled drug' connotation.
Not that a drug being scheduled is proof of harm in and of itself, but it seems like many people (particularly on HN for some reason) are in heavy denial that they are addicted to amphetamines and that it maybe isn't such a healthy way to solve behavioral problems. If you're an adult then fine you can make your own decisions, but the fact that people give amphetamines to children because they cant focus in school seems very sick to me.
Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#97I feel like ADHD is just normal for a huge percentage of people but the people gifted with an abundance of concentration are extremely overrepresented in medicine and management positions.
Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#98I just started working with a new team a few weeks ago. So far I've had "nice to meet you" calls with six or seven of the people on this team. And nearly half of them mentioned "by the way, I have ADHD, just so you know." And since I share so many characteristics with these individuals, now _I'm_ wondering if I have ADHD. Certainly the never-ending Instagram ads want me to think so. Or is this becoming a blanket term…
"And nearly half of them mentioned "by the way, I have ADHD" Statistically that seems rather unlikely, so I wonder if people are being over-diagnosed?
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Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#99I just started working with a new team a few weeks ago. So far I've had "nice to meet you" calls with six or seven of the people on this team. And nearly half of them mentioned "by the way, I have ADHD, just so you know." And since I share so many characteristics with these individuals, now _I'm_ wondering if I have ADHD. Certainly the never-ending Instagram ads want me to think so. Or is this becoming a blanket term…
I went in an ADHD rabbit hole a week ago. I never considered my self suffering from it, my quirks were individual parts of my character! But now I highly suspect I have it. I lose focus all the time. For example, Going from doing laundry, to gathering dishes, and bringing out trash without finishing one of them. Or I can't read long articles with topics that are important for me but don't tickle one of my interests.…
> Or I can't read long articles with topics that are important for me but don't tickle one of my interests.
Can't concentrate on boring things - surely that's normal? It feels like they're casting the ADHD net wider and wider and from reading the internet I'm starting to question whether my behavior fits into the ADHD category. And part of me wants it to so that I have a label that explains and excuses me.
But how do you separate it from this boring hyper-specialized world of bullshit jobs? As someone said it's no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society. I love Doug Stanhope's take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKyMvjPJdtM
Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
You say that like it's a fact but diagnosis is not based on genetic/neurological testing, it's mostly just observing behavior in interviews.
Twin and family studies reveal that it is genetic but don't reveal how genes cause it or which ones are involved.
How can those studies prove it is genetic if there is no quantitative way to diagnose it? If you could do a blood test or brain scan and make a diagnosis on physical data then sure, but until then it's all just conjecture