Then what’s your opinion on people with just ADD

Absentmindedness, forgetfulness can have a lot of reasons besides "just being born with it" and most of the time thinking it's just the way you are is not useful. Which is kinda my point. There has to be a specific cause that can be pinpointed down to.

 

But I don't believe they are being lazy if that's what you're asking me.

"Highly Sensitive Person" is another one of those memes that popped up recently in the mainstream. Ironically the creator of this label only created it to explain away her son's autism with something "normal" and even "cool". But it is quite similar to the hunter brain myth and other shit people make up to explain lack of focus.

 

There's a pattern between these constructs that makes certain behaviors into a nice pseudo-scientific box packaged into an identity or a personality type.

But it doesn't make the person engage with what is truly happening in their life - they explain away their behavior with someone else's fantasy instead of analyzing the circumstances that really shaped them and others like them. In that way I think these things can be actually harmful.

Regardless of what the root cause is, ADHD meds offer a fast way to remedy the attention deficit problem

 

Therapy is very time consuming and often ineffective

As a dude who abused coffee (INB4 "abuse coffee lol") I can say - ADHD-like bullshit happens to you if you drink cheap an ounce of "instant coffee" per day

 

 

Example 1: I would buy some cheap coffee, try some, think "mmmm... this one isn't as tasty, I should pour more"... BOOM. My mug now has several "cups" of instant coffee.

 

Example 2: Soda with caffeine. Cola, stong tea from a teapot, energy drinks, you name it

It does explain how a fella *have evolved* to "have such an archetype* tho

LOL literayyyyyy lmao.

 

 

I am so "explosive" sometimes. Especiall after coffee

 

 

regards,

* ADHD-like behaviour, not "real" ADHD; because quitting coffee worked out for me.

Yeah, if someone wants to take Ritalin responsibly that's none of my business. But due to misconceptions and laziness people can overmedicate their own kids just because they're too stupid to handle them.

 

It's mostly people treating a trashcan diagnosis like it's not one is what is bothering me.

 

Yup. I had a pretty bad experience after drinking a bunch of sugar cans recently. Not gonna do that again!