One of them is the increased number of people caring for mental status, but the other one is, we are living in an era that requires long hours of computer usage which is against the living way of an ADHD person. We need to walk, go out, spend energy, but nowadays we have to stay in an office, look at a screen, which is so boring.
I’m reluctant to blame anything besides increased awareness for any increase in diagnosis.
I didn’t discover that I had it until I was almost 40, and I’m sure many others my age STILL don’t realize that they have it.
- larger percent of people going for diagnosis
- better & more reliable diagnostics
- understanding that men arent the only ones susceptible to adhd
- understanding that adhd doesnt present identically across all populations
- better awareness in general of neurological differences
I discovered I had it at around 35, just a few years ago. It’s an awareness thing. My hope is that the percentage increases so much that it no longer is seen as a rare issue, that a significant portion of the population has it and has had it, and that overall mindset and policy changes are made to accommodate. We don’t work well in the society that has been built up by the normies. We are an asset, not a hindrance to a functioning society, but we really haven’t been given our place in the rigid system that often counters where we can be the most productive. We can do things that are often described as super powers, capable of learning new things incredibly fast, but it’s situational and often not long term, and companies for example just don’t have systems in place to utilize that. We need our own dedicated style of management that all employers are aware of and how to get the most from us, which contrasts heavily to the mind-breaking, life-draining style of management that typical people thrive in.
Okay, I rambled a bit and went off topic, lol
TL;DR screens are short circuiting everybody’s brains.
I think it’s increased in the last few decades because our attention spans have been shortened from staring at screens all the time. And people who make movies and videos know how to keep our attention by catering to short attention spans, frequently cutting to new scenes, hence triggering our short attention spans and making us crave short snippets rather than in depth long subject content which require long attention spans.
Thankfully I was born in the 1970s and I was raised on books and I thoroughly loved books until the early 2000s when the internet finally took over my psyche.
The thing with books is it requires a long attention span and it’s so much better for your brain as it requires thinking and visualization and analysis and you can pause and look up from the book and think about what you’re reading and then go back and continue where you left off and you can learn new words and analyze the words and look up the words. These mentally-nourishing things do not happen when we are staring at screens.
It’s only relatively recently been understood, defined, and studied. As in the last 50ish years, but with a much-heavier emphasis on more recently, now on the order of ~2,500ish peer-reviewed papers per year.
Better detection methods.
