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Re:TikTok trend that makes teens believe they have serious m... by nradov on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:02PM (#29755397)
ADHD is a real disease, but it's also common for college students to fake it in order to get the medications as nootropics or for selling to their classmates. That's been going on since long before the current pandemic.

Besides the medications, an ADHD diagnosis can also get you special academic privileges such as extra time on exams.

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Re:TikTok trend that makes teens believe they have serious m... by curtisblaine on Saturday January 01, 2022 @04:51PM (#29763219)
> Besides the medications, an ADHD diagnosis can also get you special academic privileges such as extra time on exams.

Not only ADHD: dyslexia too, and probably other diseases / disorders related to the mental and neurological sphere.

This is problematic, because on one hand it's not hard to fake a disease if you know the symptoms and on the other hand it's quite easy to be convinced that you have a disease if you read the symptoms online. And I honestly don't know if doctors are able to discern "fake" illnesses from "real" ones when the diagnosis is essentially 100% derived from patients reporting their symptoms.

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