• MuchPineapples@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    People self-diagnosing young children with ADHD is the dumbest thing.

    Children are full of energy and easily distracted, people! That’s their whole thing!

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOPM
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      7 months ago

      How do you know it’s self-diagnosed? Children have diagnosable ADHD, and nothing in this post suggest this parent just randomly diagnosed their child.

      ADHD is not the same as being “full of energy,” that implies a deep misunderstanding of the condition.

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        7 months ago

        Exactly! I have a child who first got their diagnosis at 6 years old. It wasn’t their personal energy level that spurred the diagnosis.

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      7 months ago

      This comment said:

      People self-diagnosing young children with ADHD is the dumbest thing.

      Children are full of energy and easily distracted, people! That’s their whole thing!

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      7 months ago

      Thanks mom. I didn’t get treatment until I was 35 and prior to that I was living in my car fighting for survival. 7 years later I own a 3600 sq/ft house, new truck outright, and $100k in my 401k. Go fuck yourself and that mindset.

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          7 months ago

          Well, there’s a large group of adults that struggled because of “my kid’s not crazy”. Imagine struggling half your life and everyone making jokes about it. You can check out any of the adhd subs to see the exact story played out over and over.

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        7 months ago

        Ok 35 year old, how about a 7 year old forgetting where they put their toothbrush? Fuck you for condoning fake diagoses on children.

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          7 months ago

          You have exactly zero evidence that Twitter made anything up. Shouting “Enabler!” at anyone that suggests you’re wrong just illustrates how unreasonable your presumption is.

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          7 months ago

          No no man, I also had untreated adhd. All those kids getting bullied a lot? Large % is from untreated adhd on the victim AND abuser side. I’ll agree that self-diagnosin is b.s. it requires a prefessional and should be taken seriously.