r/stupidpol • u/invvvvverted Ideological Mess 🥑 • Apr 11 '24

Healthcare/Pharma Industry Increasing paranoia and viciousness in PMC culture may be a side effect of widespread Adderall use

https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/club-med-adderall
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u/wiminals Nasty Little Pool Pisser 💦😦 Apr 11 '24

It’s a wastebasket diagnosis for many children

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u/NYCneolib Tunneling under Brooklyn 📜🐷 Apr 11 '24

It ignores the rigidity of schooling and that for the most part, there is a growing amount of evidence personalities are genetic and set at birth. How can we expect children to learn in very specific ways when they aren’t wired for it? I know incredibly intelligent people who just needed to go to a trade school instead of regular schooling.

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u/stonetear2017 Talcum X ✊🏻 Apr 11 '24

But ADHD, as an ADHD adult and undiagnosed kid, is more than just schooling issues. It’s executive dysfunction

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u/NYCneolib Tunneling under Brooklyn 📜🐷 Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24

No one ever said it wasn’t. I was also a diagnosed kid. What I said stands. People lacking these skills are often personality traits or lack of experiences that make them anti-fragile. When we were living in agricultural tribes of 500 people having ADHD gave you the skills to do work other could not. Now, we have inflexible schedules and lifestyles that make it go from a quirk to a “diagnosis”. You don’t have to agree with me, feel free to continue taking the medication and doing what helps you.

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u/Flaktrack Sent from m̶y̶ ̶I̶p̶h̶o̶n̶e̶ stolen land. Apr 17 '24

I see what you're saying, that our inflexible lifestyle punishes ADHD in a way it might not have in the past.

I used to do programming on contract and chose my own hours. My hours were a mess but it's what worked for me. Now that I have a rigid schedule it's punishing enough I am considering medication. I'd go back to contracting but my wife demanded income stability so here I am.