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So rather than think "oh, I guess those tests are rubbish and I don't actually have ADHD", your conclusion is "oh, ADHD must not exist then"?

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I think you could create tests that describe tests that describe a pretty large amount of people in many ways. In the future we maybe have tests that show if you're a morning bird or a night owl.

The society is structured in a way that makes it easier for some types of people to succeed but it doesn't mean that people who doesn't fit that model can't or that it's something wrong with them. That is what I meant by my initial comment but it is clear that it wasn't how people here read it.

Maybe it exists and is a real disorder, perhaps I even have it. I don't care either way and I try not to let it affect me or my life.

Or, you could trust the lived experience of millions of real, suffering people, and the medical expertise of all the doctors in the world working on helping those people, and shut the fuck up about something you know nothing about.

Please stop with the straw man shit. I do trust lived experience of people that have an ADHD diagnosis. Why would you think otherwise? I do trust people with medical expertise. I do at least have a little experience with people that have ADHD diagnosed so I know some things about it but I never claimed I was an expert. I explicitly wrote that I was not a doctor.

Fuck you too, though.

> Why would you think otherwise?

Because you keep using language like "maybe it exists and is a real disorder".

There's no "maybe".

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