In no way am I suggesting adhd is fake, and as someone who’s attended special needs schools for dyslexia, I have experienced peers who struggled greatly with hyperactivity.

I think if you look at the American numbers of the prevalence of use of Ritalin from 2001 - 2021 shrinking from 4.2% to 0.5% that you aught to get very used to millennial Americans describing this over prescribing as “fake”…

adderall peaked in 2015 with 7.5% of 12th graders which in 2021 is 1.8%

The diagnostic codes have changed over this same period of time… ADD with out hyper activity is no longer a thing. You mix this with the prescription prevalence stats above and you have a bunch of American millennials who used to be billed to insurance as add with out hyper activity and now billed as some generic generalized anxiety disorder. So to them, this former diagnosis in brevity was “fake” and partially driven by big pharma.