The sort of "ADHD wave" or whatever going on on the Internet right now is kind of getting on my nerves but i have conflicting feelings about the fact that it's getting on my nerves... Like the annoyed voice in my head just sounds so much like the "oh everyone's like that stop trying to feel special it's just an internet trend" thing which... Sucks
But, at the same time, it is kind of an internet trend right now, which is coming with a lot of misinformation and very little nuance.
And also personally i feel like trauma (personal, societal, global) needs to be a way bigger part of the discussion right now with all sorts of brain stuff. Like, I absolutely believe ADHD (and autism, and other things i know less about) is a very real type of brain that exists outside of trauma, but i also think the line is very hard to draw and a lot of people (most???) grow up with some kind of trauma, or at the very least lack of information about how to be emotionally healthy, in our society. And that's more of a collective fix (or movement towards fixing) that can help a lot of people rather than focusing on individual habits and things like that
And i also feel like the focus on ADHD comes without much knowledge about Autism, which can look very very similar at times and need to be discussed together more often, especially when it comes to the individual sort of fixes that help you live your life better, many of which work pretty well for one neurotype but not the other (and if they get mismatched can result in a lot of frustration for the person in question)
Idk i think in the end my irritation is the same as my irritation with everything that happens on the Internet which is just "i wish people would think about this more deeply and consider the nuances" which. Y'know. Good luck i guess