I personally think that it isn’t so much people that are increasingly expressing ADHD traits, it’s the world that’s more and more unforgiving of those traits. Everything is monitored and optimized and the volume of info we’re supposed to process every day is massive. We’re not built for this world and it shows. If we fail to fit the mold that produces the most value for stock holders we are deemed defective. We’re not. We’re just human.
The world changes massively in the 90s and then again every 10 years since. Each change affects the group that grows up during the change, making them much different than generations before. Older generations label this diversion as ADHD and attempt to correct the new generations back to the old ones.
While I appreciate your sentiment, the math doesn’t follow in the last sentence: 90s’ older generation is not the same as 20s’ older generation, and the latter is not “correcting” to said 90s’ target results. I feel that what you’re trying to land on is the seemingly exponential change to modern society since the 90s advent of various social/comms tech, though. 🙇🏼♂️
I’m a parent of kids born in the 10s, I was born in the 90s. Kids are still being diagnosed with adhd often as young as three. Its plenty of my peers my age that push this stuff too.
Generations are inheriting what they think “normal” should be from the generation before them, and they from the generation before them.
Its definitely not a hard rule. I’d expect people on lemmy to be more likely to be independent thinkers anyways.
Yes, and the point is that each successive generation has a slightly different era of parents that influence their own parenting, etc. —for better or worse.
It might seem like it, especially for late diagnoses, but I don’t think the ratio of individuals with ADHD is increasing.
They are getting hit with an information overload unlike anything previous generations have had to deal with. And, what was possible to cope with earlier in life, now in mid-life, results in a choice of either a mental breakdown from exhaustion, or medication that helps deal with the symptoms.
There are some technological and cultural trends that exasperates the issue, especially short form social media, which I think governments have failed at protecting the younger generation from. It’s not like it’s an easy thing to fix. Try banning sugar from the sugar addicted children who’s sense of identify and self worth is made out of sugar. Not to mention capitalistic forces salivating over how dirt cheap and easy it is to manipulate them en mass.
I’m 40 and never thought I had ADHD. When I was a kid my teachers wanted my shitbag mother to get me tested but she never would because “I’d be drugged up and not the real me” bitch, the undrugged me is a fucking disaster. I didn’t realize I had ADHD until about a year ago, and only because I identified so much with ADHD memes and started looking into it. The real reason she wouldn’t get me tested was because she didn’t want a “weird kid” and I’ve suffered my whole life because of it, not knowing or understanding that there was a reason behind my problems. I thought I was just a shitty, broken person.
Because people are addicted to stimulants. I say this as having been diagnosed by multiple doctors. I 110% have adhd. My mom, my brother and all the other family members that take a stimulant do not. Especially my brother. He just likes to go fast
Maybe if stimulants were so addictive I wouldn’t forget to take my medication so often.
Other stimulants though, like caffeine and nicotine, yeah for sure. I self-medicated with cigarettes and Mountain Dew for decades before going on Adderall.
I wonder if there’s any outside pressure to go fast and not stop 🤔
Same reason anything takes off in the west. There is money to be made by treating adhd. The more people diagnosed the more money can be made. Most doctors won’t advise that the medications they prescribe haven’t been around long enough to do long term studies on them.
Y’all can roll the dice if you like, I really hope some of you luck out and find benefit.
What are you even on about, mate? You could check for yourself in minutes how old the research is on ADHD and stimulants (linked is a Google scholar search for some key terms for research from 1950-1980).
Just don’t participate in an ADHD support community if you don’t want to be supportive, eh? The block community button is probably at the top of your page/app somewhere, so you never need to see it again.
Lol at you asking me to leave. What goes together better than “adhd” and being anti-social.
Not meant to be antisocial; it just seems strange to participate in a community in an adversarial manner. It implies this might not be a good fit for you.
On the other hand, there are non-pharmaceutical interventions that work, and maybe that’s why you’re here. I wouldn’t flag your account to be reviewed by a mod to be banned—disagreement can contribute to a discussion, although ideally it would be grounded in accurate claims.
