I made it to middle age without any ADHD diagnosis or stimulants, including coffee. My symptoms were present from early childhood and remain to this day, I expect I'll carry them to my grave. The entire time it's been an agonizing struggle, in ways I learned over decades were not normal compared to my friends and family.
I avoided diagnosis and medication due in part to stigma perpetuated by attitudes like yours. I suffered in silence for years that could have been avoided if only my condition were better understood and supported.
When I finally got a professional diagnosis, the stimulant didn't make me high the way it would do for you, it just made my brain act more like your brain on a normal day. My stresses and struggles became simply normal challenges, with the smothering layer of ADHD failings on top removed.
So at least in my adult experience, properly dosed stimulant medication given to people who need it can be life-alteringly effective, as close to a cure as a neurodivergent brain thinking today can hope for.
Stop telling me how to speak, you brain dead amphetamine junkie. I will speak as I please and dissuade as many people as possible from taking daily amphetamines with a junk diagnosis for a fake disease.
> When I finally got a professional diagnosis
You got tricked into doing brain-altering drugs by a drug dealer in a white coat. You couldn’t develop study or focus discipline as an adult so you took the nebulous, no-quantitative-measurement diagnosis and ‘script.
You've unfortunately been doing this in other places too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34417737
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34417049
These are unquestionably bannable offenses on HN. I'm not going to ban you because you've also posted good comments and it doesn't look like we've warned you before. But if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on—that means making your substantive points thoughtfully and respectfully, and using HN for curious conversation, not battle—we'd be grateful.
Pure copium. It’s a fake disease designed to put every active child (mostly boys) on amphetamines. I’ve read the nonsensical definitions of this “disorder” and I reject them. I reject the institutions that acknowledge them — they will go down in history with the lobotomists. It is pure nonsense. They tried to diagnose me when I was young. They will try to ensnare any naive parent or young person that will put faith in their absurd white coats.
ADHD = normal (boyhood) rejection of sitting still for 8 hours straight and/or lack of study discipline. Simple as that. To diseasify normal behavior like wanting to play sports over reading Pride and Prejudice, and to prescribe amphetamines to a growing brain as a solution is both absurd and evil. ADHD is bullshit and you were tricked into an amphetamine habit (and the lack of personal accountability that comes with calling your lack of discipline a disease).