This is anecdotal but it feels like undiagnosed ADHD is much more prevalent than we as society realize.
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That is the perception, yes, however it's usually not that.
I have background in education, but not in regular schools.
I was the math and critical thinking lead at a supplementary learning center where we adapted to each student as an individual in whatever ways we could find that were effective.
We had many parents bring students to us. A number of them said their kids were suspected of having ADHD by the public school staff.
95% of the time, it was a misdiagnosis.
In most cases, once we established each child's neurological profile and used that profile to work with the child, the child's performance was excellent.
That doesn’t really mean they don’t have ADHD… you’re just compensating with a forgiving environment. Ie tailoring your methods to minimize the appearance of ADHD behavior
Or the school system, as structured, is tragically inept and the way we were handling each student was appropriate. I mean…how else should people be treated? As serial numbers or as unique humans?
Or maybe it has nothing to do with the education system because it’s only an environment that highlights an underlying condition and not a cause of said condition and it is in fact a bias against the public education system that causes you to say this (not wrongfully so because by definition one system cannot be best for everyone, but does not invalidate a condition…)
Oh most definitely. I am biased against the public/government school system. It’s based on an antiquated Prussian model designed to be an NPC factory.
It’s not designed to produce quality graduates. Teachers are in unions. That ruins meritocratic practices and crappy teachers get to keep teaching.
Student to teacher ratios are way too high. My students won awards at national math and critical thinking test competitions in increasing quality and quantity each year. My students’ test averages beat both national and international averages by increasing margins every year. Proof is in the results.
Teacher should keep their their mouth shut , keep teaching and don’t try to be a doctor !
Bro everyone today is ADHD.
I was talking with my friend about how prevalent it is. He's a doctor and he started explaining his opinion and mid sentence he changed the subject to the pool renovations he'd done recently. (He has a pool).
Gosh is something conspiring to make our attention spans shorter and shorter for power and profit? Nah, it's ADHD 🤣
Hmmm... I wonder at what point ADHD has become so prevalent that the diagnosis would just be 'Normal'. 🤔
Or maybe we just named a typical state of existence some random disorder and have built a society so far and away from our evolutionary normal our minds haven’t evolved it out of existence so we’re medicating people with shit we know nothing of the consequences and are winding up with social unrest…
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Oh man, this sentence is like that one friend who starts a casual story at the bar but ends up explaining the entire history of the universe, quantum physics, and why your ex was secretly a lizard person—all without taking a breath or a comma break. It's got more clauses than a Santa's naughty list, tumbling headfirst into social unrest like a philosopher who tripped over his own beard. If punctuation were a referee, it'd have called a timeout five "ands" ago.
Pro tip: Think before rambling dumbass.
Just part of the pharmaceuticalization of society—make them all weak and dependent.
> Sow seeds to destroy health everywhere possible
+ prop up western medicine as the pinnacle of health benevolence
+ designate everything as injury and illness including many things that are natural, normal and even healthy and necessary
+ create for each one a medical diagnosis and ’solution’
+ make everyone a patient.
I have adhs diagnosed, but its a super power so i only take my meds once or twice a week. On the farm, it allows me to focus deeply on a specific task but then context switch frequently. Like i can do chainsaw work for an hour or two and then i go figure out where to move the pigs and planning stuff, and then I'll go build something for the sheep, and then ill go forage some wild food and then ill come back and code until i get bored.
Human beings weren’t designed to sit in classrooms and offices