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I have to be the dissenting voice in this #ADHD discussion. I know that "ADHD type" people exist -- I'm one of them -- but I think it is a category error to say that we have a mental disorder. This error has led to the diseasifying and drugging of millions of healthy children.
The medicalization of normal dispositions and personality types is very advantageous to drug companies, but it is harmful to people and especially children
The whole "ADHD exists vs ADHD doesn't exist" paradigm is faulty. No on denies that there are people -- again, like myself -- who fall into the category we have labeled ADHD. The question, which is more philosophical than anything, is whether that category is disordered.
I propose that we in this category are different (though not that different, I mean there are hundreds of millions of us after all), but we are not disordered. And just because those differences create challenges at work or school or whatever does not in itself make it a disease.
