Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD
by beenBoutIT on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @01:39PM
(#19911716)
According to Stanford's sleep clinic something like 25% of people diagnosed with ADD/ADHD actually have narcolepsy. A real disease has an objective test of some kind while an ADD/ADHD diagnosis is entirely subjective.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
(Initially wrote a much angrier reply cuz I was so pissed off)
Even with physical diseases there are often misdiagnoses and genera oversights.
There’s definitely a social aspect to certain kinds of misdiagnoses, but medicine is not obvious in some contexts. The human body is pretty complex!