Joe Rogan and Bryan Callen on boys being over-diagnosed with ADHD.
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These guys don't know what ADHD is lol.
Lmao didn’t get diagnosed till 18, and I didn’t even see my doctor for it, I had to bring it up possibly when my friend asked me if I had it. Never knew or really though about adhd even being real till I was 18. Ended up highly severe, coped with it my whole life. The more power to undiagnosed people, Changed my life. Even tho I’m still adjusting doses and got psychosis one day
I don't believe ADHD is the right term and I actually suffer from it. Basically, I'm fine, the problem is the world is designed poorly for those who simply cannot be fucking interested in doing boring shit.
Over 80% of diagnoses of ADHD questionnaires are filled out without the child present. They are filled out usually by their teacher, a special ed teacher, a parent, a counselor, or a doctor often without saying a word to the child. And over half of the people diagnosed with ADHD take medication long-term.
If you do the math, that means AT LEAST a third of people diagnosed with ADHD are medicated long-term DESPITE having never been present to fill out an ADHD questionnaire.
That really does speak to how real ADHD is. Sure it's real… but what does it tell you when the diagnosis process doesn't include the patient. How thorough can it possibly be by that standard? You can't get away with that for diagnosing down syndrome… or fetal alcohol syndrome… or covid.
ADHD is a vehicle for selling addictive drugs to children, and it's being enabled by a series of people who don't want to take responsibility.
First, the child doesn't want to take responsibility for their poor performance in school.
Second, the parents don't want to take responsibility for their child lacking discipline in school.
Third, the teacher doesn't want to take responsibility for the student that is taking a lot of their time while they're trying to teach.
Fourth, the special ed teacher doesn't want to take responsibility by working with a student that hasn't been mellowed out by drugs… and who can blame them? Every teacher is sending their problem children to the same place. I would want them medicated too.
Fifth, the counsilor (and the school at large) don't want to take responsibility for this student's lousy performance on standardized tests, so they insist the child has a learning disability so they don't have to count that child's tests toward their school averages.
If we're being honest though, only the parents truly have control here, and the school will NEVER be straight with them. But the parents know the truth… that they're dropping the ball. They are in denial, but they know. You know how I know? Because I have seen the difference between ADHD parents and Down Syndrome parents.
ADHD parents want to know what the teacher is going to do and what medication they can put in their kid to make the kid act right AT SCHOOL. A Down Syndrome parent, on the other hand, knows that their child suffers from a genetic fluke that truly is not their fault… so they aren't defensive about it. They know that the teachers know their child suffers from a syndrome, not a lack of home discipline. So when they interact with teachers who have more experience with down syndrome children than them, they are all ears, and they ask a lot of questions about what they should be doing at home.
In other words, ADHD parents hide and deny the fact their child's problems almost always start at home. They lie to their child's teachers CONSTANTLY. Down Syndrome parents by and large don't.
I am pretty sure I have ADHD, I had actually went to a specialist very recently, and it seems very highly likely that I have it now after I’ve been, I mean, I know they didn’t say yes or no but the way it went, ADHD can be very misdiagnosed in a way of where they think that because you have ADHD that because it says hyperactivity in it that that means you are literally bouncing off the walls physically when it’s not always the case, a lot of times, it might just be just fidgeting or a your mind going 90 miles an hour while your body is going zero, for most of us who has it isn’t always hyper physically, for most of us it is more mental hyperactivity like me