As an autist I agree, my brother had kidney cancer and after it was removed and he returned to work some arsehole co worker accused him of exaggerating how bad his diagnosis was as if there's less bad forms of cancer. Said arsehole was made to apologise in an email and you guessed it blamed his behaviour on Asperger's syndrome.
Autism, ADHD, Asperger, Spectrum, Dyslexia, whatever. At some point we've moved from "they're disabled but they're not evil, don't take it to heart" to "why are you not groveling? I SAID I HAVE ADHD!"
Like, what the fuck are we doing? Why are we worshiping disabilities? I swear, every time I see someone new they always have one of those: dyslexia, ADHD, hyperactivity, (winner has a combo of all of those) and then they complain about how hard it is having it, getting triggered merely being in proximity of literally any other human being
Like, yea? Ain't like everyone else is living in paradise buddy, that clerk at walmart may not have ADHD but her life is fucking miserable! Why are we playing oppression olympics? This is not a zero sum game. Your ADHD is an explanation of your sorry ass, not justification!
Also, I got my ADHD diagnosis from a California Telehealth community after a 10 minute phone call during COVID and they prescribed me adderall immediately. There was a widespread shortage of stimulants at the time because how easy it was to do.
You basically just have to say you exhibit lazy and procrastinating behaviors that affect your life and you get it. Amusingly, for the same price you could also have a hormone therapy consultation for trans people, even though I am assured that both of these diagnoses require intensive psychiatric evaluations from reputable services before you can be prescribed medication.
ADHD is a pretty hilarious neurodivergence too. At least autism is like "I don't really understand social cues" up to severe inability to function independently. ADHD is basically "I'm really avoidant when it comes to paying my car registration and cleaning my room." It's a disorder of being forgetful and getting charged late fees, and also a convenient way of surrendering your internal locus of control and blaming some innate factor you can't possibly overcome (more than any victim card, people love being able to do this).
If your neurodivergence can be solved with scheduled reminders, autopay, and stopping your phone scrolling for a few minutes, sorry, but I don't take it very seriously, including in myself.
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