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A casual community for people with ADHD

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Acceptance, Openness, Understanding, Equality, Reciprocity.

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Discussing other neurological problems like autism, anxiety, ptsd, and brain injury are allowed.
Discussions regarding medication are allowed as long as you are describing your own situation and not telling others what to do (only qualified medical practitioners can prescribe medication).

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Confession time... (piefed.social)

submitted 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by domusaltera@piefed.social to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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One of the big reasons I haven't gotten diagnosed for ADHD yet is that I assume they'll prescribe meds and that will create a concept called "meds" that others can bully me with. No one can tell you to take your meds if you don't have any lol.

The other reasons are that it's taken me decades to actually like myself and the thought of meds changing who I am is really scary. Then there's the scary things that come with diagnoses. What if I get misdiagnosed? What if getting diagnosed leads to rights being removed? I have a friend who was diagnosed as bipolar and they immediately removed her driving licence. What if I go to a private clinic instead and they just feed me a bunch of lies so they can charge huge fees for consults and meds? It's a minefield and I'm happy with the way I function and also, I'm generally a happy person living an nice life so why upset the apple cart?

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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[–] AddLemmus@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago

Can't say anything about the legal consequences; typically, an ADHD diagnosis does not affect any rights and is confidential anyway.

Keeping your health situation very private is a good idea for any health issue.

As for not needing them: Per definition, you don't have ADHD if it does not significantly impact your life negatively. It's a "must"-criterion, no matter how many other indications there are.

But if you benefit from it, my experience is that it only changes the things about me I disliked. Everything is only better. Only thing to watch out for is not to use the medication boost to focus even more on unproductive things.