"adhd is a new thing" is very funny to me, you used to be able to buy amphetamines over the counter, anyone with it could self medicate
much like erdős did, heh
a close friend bet him $500 he couldn't last a month without them. he did
"you have set mathematics back by a month"
@tef "but the rate of people being diagnosed is so high now, way more than in previous years!"
"yeah, about 2-3 times higher, the amount you'd expect to see if, say, the baseline normal incidence rate was combined with people who went undiagnosed for the last 30 years, plus the effects of information availability?"
@gsuberland @tef add to that diagnostic criteria that skewed heavily towards typical male presentation and the belief that it has to be obvious in childhood.
To my knowledge, much of the medical community was like "surprised Pikachu face" when research showed that it doesn't stop once you grow up. Heck, health insurance in my country didn't even pay medication for adults until ~2012.
@draco @gsuberland @tef The other thing is that the ADHD diagnosis criteria is just whether your parents or teachers think you're annoying. None of them describe what it actually feels like to have the condition.
This misses out on a lot of people and of course the problem of teachers thinking you're annoying does tend to disappear rather suddenly around age 18 for unknown reasons.
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