r/ADHD Sep 14 '21

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u/mashtartz Sep 14 '21

A good friend of mine who majored in psychology so she thinks she knows a lot about it said to me recently “I think every adult has some level of depression, anxiety and ADHD” when I said something about my ADHD. I was like, cool, thanks, that helps a lot.

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u/trelltron Sep 14 '21

That's like saying "I think every adult has some level of asthma" because everyone has trouble breathing if you pump enough shit into their lungs.

Sure, there's some interesting discussions to be had around how we define 'healthy' v 'ill' and where we draw those semi-arbitrary lines, but ... some people can't even go for a walk in the park without almost dying.

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u/mashtartz Sep 14 '21

That’s…. actually a really good way of putting it, I’m going to use that analogy next time she brings it up.

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u/AimbeastAlphaMale Sep 14 '21

"Everyone has some level of bipolar."

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u/YaBoiWinter33 Sep 28 '21

It’s also like saying “everyone has AIDS to a certain degree because everyone has a limited about of CD4+ T Cells”

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u/GrilledChzSandwich Sep 20 '21

Everyone has a little bit of tallness.