To anyone reading negative stuff about taking medications;
If you need it, you need it. You are the one waking up every day and living your life. You and your doctor will know you infinitely better than random grumpy people online.
Anyone who expects you to struggle is not someone with your best interests in mind. They are not people you should listen to. Don’t make your life worse just because someone said to.
Personally, I don’t even engage with those types of people. They can have a say when it’s their life and their body.
I swear, most of the people who are against anyone taking adhd meds seem to be “educated” by Facebook smh.
The title and comments are super toxic.
Mental health disorders are serious issues. You owe it to yourself to explore and utilize all treatment options available. Refusing to take medications out of some weird sense of pride isn’t funny, it’s self destructive.
neurodivergence is not a thing afaik.
we are different from others just as how everyone is different from each other (unless we have some exceptional adhd).
I have adhd, it’s hard. Many people who don’t have adhd also struggle from various issues (depression, anxiety, OCD).
very few people are “sorted” with playing life in easy mode.
these memes may make us feel special but I find it silly.
It’s not a thing in the sense of it being some innate part of the universe. But it’s very real in the sense of societal expectations. It’s all our natural differences, but Neurotypical is just the acceptable amount of difference that society is built around and caters to. If you fall outside of that you’re neurodivergent. Of course people aren’t sorted into playing life on easy mode; their level of difference simply naturally falls in that acceptable range. They don’t have to think about it like someone else might because it just comes naturally to them. It’s considered a disability because everyone is expected to operate inside of that acceptable range and if you can’t then you’re broken according to society.
the people who fall outside of the “normal” - those who cannot go about their life (not just meet societal expectations) without medication are very rare (imho).
rest of us have various issues - one of them is ADHD.
neurodivergence has no meaning - if you care about people and spend time learning about them you will see that everyone is peculiar and have issues just like you (making them also neurodivergent).
it’s bit “not like other girls” .
it’s bit “not like other girls” .
it really isn’t, but what you’re doing is a lot “I don’t see colour”.
Ignoring the fact that some of us struggle more than others because society wasn’t designed for those with brains and/or bodies like ours doesn’t just magically make those struggles go away, it just makes you more comfortable and gives you an excuse to dismiss others’ difficulties.
Saying “everyone is a little neurodiverse” is saying no one is, and saying no one is, is ableism.
calling yourself disabled because you have some amount to adhd is an insult to people with disabilities ( hearing, sight etc).
pretty sure calling out that neurodivergence is not a scientific concept doesnt make me an ableist.
Except neurodivergence is a scientific concept. It’s been being studied and discussed in the social sciences for like 20 years now. And unironically implying that someone isn’t disabled because you can’t see their disability is in fact ableist. My son literally gets services from the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities for his ADHD and Autism. He’s legally considered disabled. But you would never know he has a disability looking at him.
care to show me some references claiming the scientific validity of calling some people neurotypical and some others not?
i was mainly talking about ADHD not autism.
I am not saying that there are no invisible disabilities. people might be suffering from issues for which they need help. People have to treated with care and compassion they require. one doesn’t have to go into pseudo scientific neurodivergence/typical ideas - which implies the existence of two kinds of people (typical and divergent) to understand that.
stand by my claim that having a bit of ADHD doesn’t make you disabled.
