Yeah particularly with ADHD I feel like many diagnoses are really “incompatible with wageslaving for 40 hours a week” rather than a condition that would, in a vacuum, affect the patient’s quality of life.
Of course many ADHD patients do have real issues with their quality of life even outside of societal obligations (read: work, studies) in the form of e.g. not getting chores done, but as a former “problem child” who nearly had this forced on him back in the day, I firmly believe that there’s a lot of pressure from the school system to get kids on meds just so they’ll sit pretty in class even though the real problem lies in the system.
Yeah particularly with ADHD I feel like many diagnoses are really “incompatible with wageslaving for 40 hours a week” rather than a condition that would, in a vacuum, affect the patient’s quality of life.
Of course many ADHD patients do have real issues with their quality of life even outside of societal obligations (read: work, studies) in the form of e.g. not getting chores done, but as a former “problem child” who nearly had this forced on him back in the day, I firmly believe that there’s a lot of pressure from the school system to get kids on meds just so they’ll sit pretty in class even though the real problem lies in the system.