Also, ADHD is in fact under-diagnosed, particularly in adults and especially in women.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195639/
Some children are overmedicated, but there's evidence it's also underdiagnosed in children.
Also, ADHD is in fact under-diagnosed, particularly in adults and especially in women.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195639/
Some children are overmedicated, but there's evidence it's also underdiagnosed in children.
Funnily enough, I chanced upon a random YouTube video yesterday and the very top comment was someone mentioning ADHD and others chiming in, while skeptics criticizing the self-diagnosing and likening it to those who self-diagnose other conditions such as depression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ph3ZCriWAw&lc=Ugw0IXd-rBjzj...
Whether right or wrong, it definitely is a known internet social phenomenon. That's what the ancestral post in this current subthread was referring to by referring to ADHD as the new Asperger's.