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!!!!!! I wish I could say this to ppl more without risking a "you're invalidating my struggles" - friend i am validating them, i am invalidating capitalism dammit!

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Thank you for this!! I’m so tired of diagnoses being treated as law - the human body doesn’t work that way! It does not invalidate your experiences, but the diagnosis itself doesn’t mean anything outside of the system that created it. The medical field isn’t an infallible set of rules our bodies abide by, it’s an attempt (often mistaken) to explain patterns of symptoms in statistically large sets of humans, decided by humans! I wish more people understood that. But it’s partly pharma propaganda - if your body works like a machine, there’s always a pill you can take for your specific problem and it will work again.

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This was a wonderful read, and I’ll be sure to quote in future. Ughh. I needed this.

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Really appreciated this, thanks.

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Beautifully said!

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All of this!!!

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My therapist said “wait you're right,” when I told her that the diagnostic criterion just asks “how much of an inconvenience are you to others at home/school/work.”

It's why inattentive type is typically diagnosed later in life because it doesn't obviously disrupt the classroom.

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ADHD is internalized capitalism. ESPECIALLY the impatience

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Initial thought: ‘well of COURSE not.’

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So interesting!

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Very well put. Thank you for writing this Jesse.

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