While societal changes can help, there is plenty that environment can’t fix.
A set of conditions becomes a disorder when they have a significant negative impact on a person. It’s the difference between "oh I’m so OCD giggle"and “if I don’t flip the light switch exactly four times, someone will die”. Even under perfect conditions, there are still negative impacts.
Declassifying it only hurts patients as then insurance and society at large world be given no reason to cut a little slack (for lack of a faster description).
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We aren’t neurotypical, that’s really all there is to it. Doesn’t really have anything to do with how society is structured.
Izzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That might the gist of it, but it definitely has everything to do with how the environment is structured. There might be no other feasible way to structure the environment though.
McBinary@kbin.social 1 year ago
Not really, though. Rigid structure helps with ADHD, but only when someone else is enforcing the structure. Prepubescent kids with ADHD aren't typically capable of maintaining their own structure. They aren't neurotypical, it's more than distraction and energy, they have a functioning issue. They can't tune out all the stimulus that normal brains do, and because of it they miss a lot of social cues that help with development.
My son has ADHD and no amount of reorienting our family environment would help him - he could (and has) literally be in a bare concrete room with nothing but his thoughts and get distracted and slam his hands together making exploding/punching sounds for hours, where a typical kid would get bored in seconds.
CarolineJohnson@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I feel like rigid structure is when my ADHD gets worse…
Jtee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By the same logic paraplegics aren’t disabled because they just aren’t in an environment suitable for physically disabled people.