ADHD can be medicated. It generates billions in profit. That, is the difference.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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I was going to say we pumped kids with methalike drugs for ADHD. Is that reckless seeming? Fuck yeah, but it doesn't seem like disinterest.
Excuse me, can we please not perpetuate the negative anti-medication shit against ADHD medicine? Pretty please? Especially not in a place like this?
Cause everybody thinks they're ADHD.
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Days since the Internet forgot that profound autism exists.
It's weird because terminally online people forget that profound autism exists but most irl people I talk to have no concept of autism besides profound autism.
Otoh, I think most people irl and online think of ADHD as quirky distracted ball of energy meanwhile severe ADHD is not actually seen as a disability but a personal failing or mistaken for the classic depression+anxiety combo.
Absolutely! I think this disconnect is such a big part on why conversations about diagnosis rates, prevention, and treatment break down.
I honestly believe the dsm5 should have kept Asperger's as a separate diagnosis than pooling all ASD together.
I think that's a fairly common sentiment. The severity of symptoms is a significant decider in how disordered someone is, and having clean deliniations makes sure that people with less disordered lives are not taking attenion awwy from the needs of those with more disordered lives.
Holy fuck this is fucked lol.
Y'all forgot real fucking 10 of 10 on the spectrum with adult violent outbursts and literally chaining down folks autism exists?
This whole, your grandfather has trains and was autistic hurr hurr is terrible.
Yeah autism isn't all "lol I totes have autism because I like stuff" it can be a LOT more debilitating.
It's a spectrum from "Weird and Awkward all the time but outwardly living a pretty normal life to SCREAMING AT EVERYTHING AND BRING UNABLE TO COMPREHEND ANYTHING AROUND YOU.
When people think of autism now they don't think of the "non-functioning" side, they think of the high functioning side. Yes, high-functioning Autism sucks still, but it could be much, much worse.
ADHD rarely makes anyone "non-functional" it does make people barely-functional. Thus, no one cares. As you're doing "okay" usually.
This is the internet. You can say fuck. Fuck fuckety fuck fuck.
How would you like to see the school counselor?
How would you like to suck my balls?
Is that an offer?
What did you say?!
I’m sorry, I’m sorry. What I said was HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS, AzuranAurora?
Fuckity fuck fuck
Fuckity fuck fuck
Look at that fuckstick go
Fucking aye
Shit Piss Cunt removed Tits Fart Turd & Twat
I fucked your mom
retard? was trying to guess which word got removed
Ikr? Now i want to know what they said lmao
It's koksucker
Lmao why tfuck did that get censored of all things
People who complain about censorship sound fucking ridiculous. Every single censored post is censored because they come from platforms with algorithms, and those algorithms demote posts with certain words, like fuck. That's it. That's why the censorship exists.
If you're on Lemmy you've already agreed to put up with the censorship. If it bothers you this much, block anyone who posts a something censored. Or post your own uncensored shit. Now that you know, will you shut the fuck up about the censorship? Your complaints are more annoying than the actual censorship.
Your complaints are more annoying than the actual censorship.
That's the point. Not enough people are sufficiently annoyed by censorship so I'm going to be anoying about it.
I seriously doubt serial posters like Ladybutterfly would post as much as they do if they had to filter through posts for something as trivial as a single word having squiggles on it.
The people who feel strongly about this should post their own stuff. Complaining about it on Lemmy is just lazy. Do you really think annoying people on here will change anything?
Edit: zero replies, just downvotes. Y'all are mad at me for being correct, and it's adorable.
Imagine spending this much effort trying to convince someone to change their behavior while railing about how wrong it is to do so. Off to blocksville with you, hypocrite. There's some censorship for you.
Lol. My comment was too accurate. I think I've hit a nerve, my bad.
You can also chose to not say it, if you don't want to :)
Fck fuuuuuk fkfkfk
oh frig you said the funk word oooooooo
True, but here someone chose to say fuck and someone else said "nah, that's too vulgar!"
Fuck censorship.
Because the fascists needed a few scapegoats and they chose immigrants, trans, and autism.
I think ADHD was skipped because it's harder to say, and don't fit into their fiery speeches.
I mean RFK literally said he wanted to put people with ADHD into concentration camps
Autism got rolled in because the child abuser, disbarred doctor, scam artist, and fraudulent researcher Andrew Wakefield claimed vaccines caused autism and just about the entire Anglophone mainstream media spent years framing it as a dramatic story of a defiant doctor speaking out against the tyrannical scientific community. Often accompanied by videos of ~~autistic children being overstimulated by the presence of a camera crew and being made to melt down for the camera~~ the tragic horror of having to raise an autistic child.
This massively boosted antivax conspiracist subculture to the point of it being a significant electoral demographic. Billionaires then paid grifters to align them with greater alt-right conspiracism culture so they would vote far-right. Autism naturally slots into the untermensch role, with vaccination being analogized to blood libel.
So ADHD wasn't skipped, fascists just didn't have an ADHD-hating subculture to court.
And the most funny thing is 'fixing' autism, with medicine.
*fuck
Which is which? Cause they've both fallen into either category.
I think ADHD is often seen as annoying kids and not taken seriously while autism is viewed as otherworldly and caused by vaccines. There are no conspiracy theories where ADHD comes from, just that it's diagnosed too often
The conspiracy theory is that liberal doctors are testing new world order mind control drugs on your kids, with ADHD as a made up excuse. The kids are just lazy and irresponsible weaklings, of course.
One can finally be made to work somewhat easily within capitalism.
Because 50% of Americans are either really fucking stupid or assholes, or both. That's literally the only reason.
Correct. It really must be an american thing. The rest of the world mostly takes both divergences seriously. But we also don't get measles, so that's that 😁
We shall one day rule the world.
The worst part of it is that there are no visual cues to any of it at all. So because you look happen to normal, you’re expected to BE normal.
I've never considered neuro-atypicality as any sort of disease, I think in order to do that you would have to delude yourself as to the functionality of your average neurotypical.
Not a disease, but a disorder. When it gets to the point where its hard to keep a job or even friends because you're forgetful, distracted, demand avoidance, struggling with hygiene etc. it can get to a point where life becomes needlessly difficult. It's not that neurotypicals don't show any of these behaviours, but it's to a manageble degree.
When it gets to that point, perhaps, but the barest definition of Autism or ADHD are not indicative of that. They're umbrella and blanket terms for a wide swath of people.
Another thing is that while some would qualify for assistance in finding homes and jobs; many of them are simply a poor fit for the environment they find themselves in, could thrive more easily in a different situation.
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