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In many cases like this, it’s the frequency these things happen. Once in a while is normal. Every single moment isn’t.
What’s kind of lost in your sentiment, but it’s nonetheless necessary to understand, is that ADHD experiences exist on a spectrum, as do normative ones. We are the ones who draw the boxes around biology and decide that “five times a week is normal but six is not.”
The key part of ADHD that makes it distinct is the final D(isorder). Disorder means it’s a behavior or tendency that’s causing disruption or otherwise preventing you from living in a way that makes you feel safe, whole, or stable. It brings disorder instead of order.
So while I agree that frequency can point to ADHD, my SO experiences this particular phenomenon about as much as I do, and I have high confidence that they do not have ADHD. Sometimes, it’s just a common human experience.
I describe ADHD as a purely executive disorder that harms your progress/goals. Which is why I agree with your statement as all those claims don’t really harm an overarching goal.
People with ADHD do things like frequently forget their driver’s license or frequently forgetting their office key card. It affects their day to day lives in more noticeable ways than just “whoops I put my thing in the pile of clothes, now ive lost it”
Whether it’s ADHD or chronic fatigue, the same stims will fix it.
That may be bad because if the treatment works, people assume the diagnosis is correct.
“Peeing is normal too, but if you’re doing it 27 times a day there’s a problem”
Rule 1.
What did I miss?
Typical whinefest of “UM ACTUALLY THIS ISN’T ADHD SPECIFIC”. Bit more preachy than most given it was multiple paragraphs long.
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I dunno bro/broette — you should talk to the other people in your life about how often they experience the last few on your list. You may find you’re one of us.
Just maybe that isn’t literally “everyone” and that “everyone” is rather a certain fraction with this set and is more of a gradient higher in occurances.
You, incidentally, didn’t mention the key aspects. Obsessive focuses and focus methods used obsessively are kind of not in there anywhere. Also that these obsessive tendencies offput all the occurances that you described.
The relation therein is something we are familiar with. Furthermore, that those without such obsessive tendencies don’t relate over the listed occurances as some kind of frequency.
Fact of the matter is that there are a good set of factors that this “disorder” is defined about. You’re drivelling about the frustrations we have. Note that they are not using these frustrations as the definition of the disorder itself by as the byproduct of suffering from the disorder’s key elements.