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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

neurodivergence is seeing a boom in diagnoses because we now actually fucking diagnose neurodivergence instead of going "yeah the kid's a retard dump em in the bin"

[โ€“] kayohtie@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Oh for sure. It's still only in that like 5% range but what I meant was folks treat it like it's new and like...nah.

I hate it. I haven't run into anyone directly doubting my ADHD at all lately, but as a kid I definitely faced that stigma from some other kids saying it's "fake", and I think one of the teachers even said it.