ADHD can be medicated. It generates billions in profit. That, is the difference.
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Because the fascists needed a few scapegoats and they chose immigrants, trans, and autism.
I think ADHD was skipped because it's harder to say, and don't fit into their fiery speeches.
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This is the internet. You can say fuck. Fuck fuckety fuck fuck.
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Because 50% of Americans are either really fucking stupid or assholes, or both. That's literally the only reason.
Holy fuck this is fucked lol.
Y'all forgot real fucking 10 of 10 on the spectrum with adult violent outbursts and literally chaining down folks autism exists?
This whole, your grandfather has trains and was autistic hurr hurr is terrible and just making people more ignorant to challenges people face.
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Which is which? Cause they've both fallen into either category.
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Because the form of autism most people are familiar with is the high support needs versions, where someone will never mentally mature past being a child, and will need lifelong care.
ADHD doesn't have that counterpart, so it and lower support needs autism were simply seen as personality failures and eccentricities that could be corrected, or left in place without harm.
"If only you would concentrate harder and were more careful"-type business. A lot of people still have that association with autism and ADHD.
It has been
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Days since the Internet forgot that profound autism exists.
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One can finally be made to work somewhat easily within capitalism.
Because humans oversimplify things in order to manage large amounts of information.
My brother got an ASD diagnosis, and it's impossible for me to get the other diagnosis. I just accepted that being where I am in my condition, means life is just not viable for me. I don't even do well in this community.
I'm just going to follow neurotypical advice until I'm dead. I have been able to get nothing done lately, and I don't feel like living anymore.
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We shall one day rule the world.
The worst part of it is that there are no visual cues to any of it at all. So because you look happen to normal, you’re expected to BE normal.
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*fuck
Cause everybody thinks they're ADHD.
One has people hyper fixated on things, the other makes people easily distracted by shiny things?
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I've never considered neuro-atypicality as any sort of disease, I think in order to do that you would have to delude yourself as to the functionality of your average neurotypical.
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