ADHD and IQ (plus your comments)

#ADHD

[@user-ur1mu2wb5y]

Thank you for another excellent presentation.

[@seiladela]

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[@grizzlyneil9836]

i have been fully diagnosed with asd in 2020. looking into adhd i think i have that too. your content is great. keep up the good work. you have a great channel.

[@sun-man]

My autistic wife died a couple of years ago. I'm traveling the world now, from my home in Australia. You remind me of her. I'd like to have you as a travel companion but you would think I'm too old 😊

[@E.Pierro.Artist]

Neurodiversity: "It's just a difference. By the way, can I have government benefits to pay my bills because my difference is impairing my ability to have a job?"" 😑 Just because there are good parts of something, it doesn't mean the bad parts disappear. That's just black&white thinking. Thanks for the video.

[@chrstopherblighton-sande2981]

I really don't like that reductionism either - reducing a persons strengths and achievements to the condition they have strips away their individuality and efforts. I like to say that: autism explains 'how' I am but not 'who' I am. For a simple example: it explains the obsessiveness & restrictedness of my interests but it does not explain the content and subject of what I'm interested in, which is instead a product of my personality, values, upbringing etc. It explains the difficulties I have but says nothing about who I am as an individual person which is shaped by a whole lot of other factors including my self-directed goals and values. And it says nothing about the things I have successfully done in my life - despite the obstacles that autism has put before me in achieving them. I assume the idea of presenting autism and adhd as a gift or superpower etc might have originated to give kids a sense of self worth and confidence around their non-autistic non-adhd contemporaries, but I think doing that subtly reinforces the idea that people are only worth something if they have some sort of utility which I believe is utterly false.

[@cynanthropewoman3608]

This a thousand times over! I find it offensive when people try to tell me that I'm only successful because I am disabled. No, I am successful despite my condition and because I worked damn hard with what I had! The notion that I would somehow lose my personality/interests if I didn't have a neurodevelopmental disorder is absolutely preposterous and implies that I am nothing but an amalgamation of inborn defects. I would still be me if there was a treatment to make my traits subclinical and my interests are because I tried them and enjoyed them in life, not because my brain is damaged. I find it almost dehumanising to be told that autism is "who I am" and I think it is a bit insulting to those without autism, as it implies that you can never achieve anything wonderful unless you have a disorder. There are way more successful doctors, scientists etc WITHOUT autism than with but the neurodiversity movement don't want to face this inconvenient truth. I would be even more skilled and successful if I was not afflicted with autism and ADHD, which is something that I have been painfully aware of for a long time. I grieve the person I could have been without autism and ADHD because they hold me back from becoming that person.

[@chrstopherblighton-sande2981]

@@cynanthropewoman3608 Really well put! I know I would be more skilled and successful if I wasn't autistic & didn't have ADHD - there is zero doubt about that in my mind. I thankfully don't get depressed about it as it's the only life I know and I struggle to imagine a life different from the one I have, but it doesn't negate the objective facts that these conditions are the source of difficulty and not success for me.

[@cynanthropewoman3608]

@@chrstopherblighton-sande2981 I dearly wish that I couldn't imagine the life I'd have had without autism and ADHD but sadly I can. I got diagnosed late and went through my life thinking that my problems would eventually be fixed with therapy. No, unfortunately I have two horrible and lifelong disorders and I'm condemned to watch others lead the life that I long for. I'm trying to get grief counselling, as I am struggling with grieving the diagnosis and the things I will never have. I absolutely despise autism and ADHD but especially autism because there's no medication.

[@digitizedgoldminds7372]

You have more notes than the average. Independently. You will be ok. I’m on the spectrum. This is how I know. I can teach you how to make money from the comfort of your own home. And I’ve helped some of the best companies in the world.

[@digitizedgoldminds7372]

I see what you are saying.

[@digitizedgoldminds7372]

Your hair is very long. You will be ok. Charlie’s Angels are on the way. Keep calm. You are brave for even posting this. Harvard PhDs cant even understand what you saying.