Lol_Modern_Psychiatry
Let’s take the characteristics of ADD:
Lack of Attention to Detail: Frequently misses details or makes careless mistakes in work or school.
Detail is subjective. If you look at reality as a whole, you are missing details now as well—thousands, probably.
Difficulty Sustaining Attention: Struggles to remain focused during lectures, conversations, or long tasks.
There is no such thing as attention. Somebody with ADD can just as easily say: “You are distracted from the new connection I have formed during our conversation. You are the one who isn’t sustaining attention.”
Poor Listening Skills: Often seems not to listen when spoken to directly.
There is nothing inherently bad about poor listening skills. This is something other people don’t like, but that has nothing to do with ADD.
Task Incompletion: Fails to finish work, chores, or duties, frequently losing focus.
Finishing a task is subjective and arbitrary as well. Folding the laundry from start to finish is completely imaginary. There are no tasks that truly have beginnings and ends—we make those up. You are also not finishing tasks right now. While you are reading this, something else remains unfinished.
Organizational Struggles: Difficulty managing tasks, time, and belongings; poor time management.
Let’s say you forget your keys because you care about and think about other people a lot. Who is to blame here? A person with ADD could argue that you should think about other people more.
Avoidance of Mental Effort: Dislikes or avoids tasks requiring sustained mental effort (e.g., reports, forms).
Again: completely imaginary. Everything you do requires mental effort. Even not paying attention requires mental effort.
Misplacing Items: Often loses school materials, keys, wallets, or phones.
Maybe you should think about calling your aunt more.
Distractibility: Easily distracted by external stimuli or unrelated thoughts.
Is the person with ADD distracted, or is the interviewer distracted from everything happening around them? “Unrelated” is also very strange. If I form a new connection in my mind, does that count as a distraction? Because it is still related to the original subject.
Forgetfulness: Frequently forgets daily activities, appointments, or bills.
This is just repeating, over and over again, what has already been said.
The problem with all this psychiatric nonsense is that it takes away a lot of what people are. A person with ADD is not going to say to you: “You seem to be distracted from a lot of creativity.”
That people with ADD may have less dopamine is the same mistake. There are no rules that everybody should have the same amount of dopamine, just like there are no two people with the same thoughts.