you don’t have ADHD, you’re just immature. 

your parents, education, and society have failed you. now you are too distracted and unserious to improve yourself, so you seek quick solutions like drugs.  

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a teen but didn’t medicate.

I taught myself how to code, built a career, and got into fitness without taking meds. No one who knows me would describe me as lazy.

I started taking meds as an adult because of my inability to do the trivial things, not the hard things, to the point where I was sliding into depression over it.

The “ADHD isn’t real” crowd is funny cause what what mental disorder is real. Depressed people should just be happy 🤡 Anxious people should just calm down 🤡

Part of me thinks it comes from people who are trying to justify their mediocrity by invalidating the success of other people. “My worth is greater because I didn’t have to rely on meds!” Like who gives a shit, live your own life.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a teen but didn’t medicate.

I taught myself how to code, built a career, and got into fitness without taking meds. No one who knows me would describe me as lazy.

I started taking meds as an adult because of my inability to do the trivial things, not the hard things, to the point where I was sliding into depression over it.

The “ADHD isn’t real” crowd is funny cause what what mental disorder is real. Depressed people should just be happy 🤡 Anxious people should just calm down 🤡

Part of me thinks it comes from people who are trying to justify their mediocrity by invalidating the success of other people. “My worth is greater because I didn’t have to rely on meds!” Like who gives a shit, live your own life.

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I think it's also from people who are able to organize and stay on top of things because they have a brain that doesn't get easily distracted / forgets things. They just don't understand what it's like to not have a brain that can hold onto things easily.

(note that I am not someone diagnosed with ADHD nor do I have reason to believe I am undiagnosed)

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If thats the case, a little empathy would go a long way. Though that might a lot to ask from someone using an anon account to dunk on a whole category of people haha