A new survey reveals that 25% of adults in the U.S. suspect they may have undiagnosed ADHD, though only 13% have consulted a doctor.
A new survey reveals that 25% of adults in the U.S. suspect they may have undiagnosed ADHD, though only 13% have consulted a doctor.
I am fully expecting that the vast majority of people are neurodivergent in some way, meaning ‘neurotypical’ is actually not typical and most people are coping. Or maybe our expectations for ‘normal’ are a bit too high.
I fully expect that the vast majority of people are neurotypical and what we call neurodivergent is just what coping looks like under the batshit insane societal structures we’ve inherited.
I think you’re both right (except maybe the vast majority part).
I think it’s your last sentence. I’ve never actually met a completely “normal” person who was able to actually keep up with society’s outrageous productivity demands
Never? I know tons of people who are keeping up just fine. My grandmother, she just retired, but she was working up until like a year ago, she has dinner on the table at 6 every night, often with vegetables from her small garden. Her house is always clean, but she’s not a clean freak. She paints, follows a water color tutorial about once or twice a week. Two years ago, she took up drawing. A few years before that, photography. She realizes she needs something else for a recipe for dinner, runs to the store and grabs it, no procrastinating. She has an active social life, and is very involved in her church. She visits her mother.
My brother-in-law runs his own business. He pays all their family’s bills, he exercises, reads books to his sons as he puts them to bed. He eats healthy. He sets New Year’s resolutions and actually keeps them every year. His bottom floor just flooded in the hurricane, and he was very calm like yeah, a lot of our stuff just got ruined. A lot of my business stuff just got ruined. We’re going to be fine, let’s get to work.
My friend is a paralegal. Her house is spotless. She has a cat who she loves. Her boyfriend is annoying, but she loves him. She loves diet Coke. She owns her place, and wants to settle down and have kids in the next few years.
All that’s pretty foreign to me, I’m struggling to keep up. I have a lot of friends who are struggling. But there are definitely people who walk through life and are just better at it. They just seem to be able to handle things.