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Listen, I don't want any animosity between us, as far as I can remember we've had good interactions on here over the years. The reason I reacted with sarcasm to your post is when it comes to ADHD the default setting for people is they think it is made up.
If I said I had schizophrenia or clinical depression you wouldn't react by telling me I was just a bit scatterbrained or needed to cheer up because you recognise them as genuine mental disorders.
I think a lot of this comes from the guy who did those studies and said he couldn't find any evidence that adult ADHD existed, however just a couple of years later, he did some meta studies and realised he was wrong. He said in his original analysis he used metrics for children and his work was flawed.
He has posted many rebuttals to his own work, however human nature is such people only remember the first thing he said and stick with that.
Anyway, let's not have a medical argument/discussion in a thread whereby I was trying to evaluate GPT-4.
Peace 'n' love.
There's no animosity and I'm not denying that ADHD exists. Any psychiatrist would diagnose me with ADHD too. I'm just saying you can't and shouldn't let that define you.
In fact, they'd diagnose me with OCD and depression as well. And then what?
Pills, mental health "support" groups (basically workshops on acquiring a defeatist attitude), and carrying around labels that harm you in every area of your life.
Saying "I'm more forgetful about this stuff since I'm diagnosed with ADHD" is one thing. But saying that you CAN'T find a simple way to deal with this is just not true.
You could literally set a quick alarm on your phone that says "cancel X subscription TODAY" at the end of the month. I also don't bother with other forms of tracking because it makes me anxious (obviously, this won't make sense to most people because tracking makes them feel LESS anxious). I do it all in my head or via alarms because I hate clutter and like easy solutions. This goes for anything from doing my taxes to updating clients and working on projects.
Anyway, you've got people on one end of the spectrum going "There's no such thing as mental health or depression, you just have to stop being a pussy" which is idiotic. But I can't say I favor the other end where people wallow in their conditions and point to them as reasons why they can't do X thing.
The thing is, nobody gives a crap about our reasons. You either do something or you don't. So you're doing yourself a disservice by hiding behind those labels and automatically "disqualifying" yourself.
Why not be the person with ADHD that does X thing despite the odds being against them? Why not stray from the herd and be extraordinary?
These are my thoughts on the matter and I have no intention of arguing. I hope it helps.
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