I see memes from this adhd community all the time on my feed, and every time I’m like - isn’t everybody like that? What’s so special about it? Like the metronome one, isn’t that how everyone with a three digit iq feels but hides it to different degrees? Or the one about being disappointed when you suck at something you never tried - how is all this stuff adhd specific? 90% of the stuff I see here is like that.

A lot of the “adhd” people I’ve seen online are 200% self diagnosed and use it as a replacement for a personality, because having adhd is fashionable - to the detriment of the credibility of the real adhd people - which is probably why people react the way that this meme hints at.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I forgot to read the second part of your comment so I will make it as a separate comment:

A lot of the “adhd” people I’ve seen online are 200% self diagnosed and use it as a replacement for a personality

Self-diagnosis is the first step to the official diagnosis, stopping at just that is totally not the way to go and I hope that that's not the case for majority of people. Also about the personality thing, when you live your whole life with undiagnosed ADHD and then one day learn about what ADHD does to you you realise that a lot of what you thought is your "personality" is actually ADHD symptoms. So people joking about their personality being ADHD is understandable.

because having adhd is fashionable

Rather than it being fashionable a big part of human population has it and symptoms make it easier to get addicted to social media which makes it seem like there are more ADHD people online than offline. Tbh learning about anything through social media is a bad idea because there's always some kind of bias or misinformation.

[–] Draghetta 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also may have just missed what you're talking about because reddit and now lemmy have been the only social media where I participated in ADHD groups.

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