"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 Also the drop in nicotine usage. And otc amphetamines.