Re:Book Banning in an Age of Amazon
by EdwardDiego on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:37AM
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Here's the fun bit though - I don't get "speedy" from the medication I'm on. Looking back with hindsight, when I was a teenager and snorting Ritalin with my friends, they got all silly and giggly, while I felt calmer. Was a sign I should've taken seriously. At the time I just thought I'd gotten dud pills.
But yeah, I think a good metaphor is that people with ADHD are starting at -1, people without are starting at 0, and then the pills add a +1 to both.
Re:Book Banning in an Age of Amazon
by ryan-allen on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:33AM
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It sounds like you're fortunate to be rather gifted, along with a repeat diagnosis of ADHD as an adult (this is not uncommon), and I have questions.
What had you seek out a diagnosis as an adult? What country were these diagnoses? How old are you?
I've been diagnosed with adhd several times as an adult and every time I scored average/slightly above average on the attention+working memory metrics but scored so high on the other metrics that the ADHD ones were considered out of place!
Personally I don't necessarily believe that ADHD "exists" but am willing to say that I do, in order to take advantage of a prescription for dexedrine which I enjoy. I would of course, in practice, attack anyone claiming it doesn't "exist" because it is counter to my own self interest in maintaining a convenient supply of speedy pills.