Why does every second person think they have adhd

Everywhere I go every second person has adhd, if you go on reddit every post is about their adhd. I genuinely don’t believe this many people have broken brains. Some people are animated, spirited, have creative wild minds and are not suppose to be steady, focused, rote or rational. Also I think the younger generation have grown up online and have because of it have withering spans of attention. Really tired of every second person claiming adhd.

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graphite · 61-69, M

We all have ADHD and we all have PTSD. Everybody now. Talk about diminishing the seriousness of this.

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

@graphite I have CPTSD but not ADHD

orioninthenight · M

@graphite as an afghan war vet, I fucking hate when people say they have ptsd for no good reason

orioninthenight · M

https://youtu.be/ffaTOD8O-Qs

graphite · 61-69, M

@orioninthenight Exactly. Combat vets, with actual, real PTSD, have to "share" the condition with people "traumatized" over a poor grade in school or being yelled at or some other nonsense.

orioninthenight · M

@graphite my thing is that even in Afghanistan it was super rare to meet people who had even been in combat and afterwards came back with ptsd

its something you get only when you are in a situation where everyone is surprised you are still alive....so pretty rare even among combat vets

so you can imagine given that fact that for people to come out and say they have ptsd for whatever little thing it is really bogus

I have a special spot for this topic because in the past when I have called people out on not really having ptsd, I always get banned or whatever

orioninthenight · M

@graphite the issue gets muddied even in the army too because lots of soldiers are fully aware that they can claim ptsd and get disability money from the VA, so for soldiers to claim this is rampant especially because it isnt a physical thing