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America’s Love Affair with Adderall
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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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This is something that concerns me about the recent excessive self-diagnosing of ADHD I've been seeing people do in the US. I think our late capitalist system has us convinced that we need to be constantly focused and productive. Distraction is a disease. I worry that when our expectations of how a person should function begin to look unnatural and based on how humans function on something like Adderall, then we slowly begin to act like there's something wrong with just being a normal person that takes their time living a more naturally paced life.
Eh, the problem I have with that approach is that in my case, Adderall helps me do stuff like "get the trash out to the dumpster" and "make phone calls". Executive dysfunction is a bitch and a half for plenty of reasons that'd still be there even if we finally attained fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Literally choked on my water mid sip when I read this. Thank you. 🙏