Some say it’s overdiagnosis, others say it’s greater recognition. But it’s clear we must think about how our society is impacting human development, says author and retired physician Gabor Maté
I personally think that it isn’t so much people that are increasingly expressing ADHD traits, it’s the world that’s more and more unforgiving of those traits. Everything is monitored and optimized and the volume of info we’re supposed to process every day is massive. We’re not built for this world and it shows. If we fail to fit the mold that produces the most value for stock holders we are deemed defective. We’re not. We’re just human.
The world changes massively in the 90s and then again every 10 years since. Each change affects the group that grows up during the change, making them much different than generations before. Older generations label this diversion as ADHD and attempt to correct the new generations back to the old ones.
While I appreciate your sentiment, the math doesn’t follow in the last sentence: 90s’ older generation is not the same as 20s’ older generation, and the latter is not “correcting” to said 90s’ target results. I feel that what you’re trying to land on is the seemingly exponential change to modern society since the 90s advent of various social/comms tech, though. 🙇🏼♂️
I’m a parent of kids born in the 10s, I was born in the 90s. Kids are still being diagnosed with adhd often as young as three. Its plenty of my peers my age that push this stuff too.
Generations are inheriting what they think “normal” should be from the generation before them, and they from the generation before them.
Its definitely not a hard rule. I’d expect people on lemmy to be more likely to be independent thinkers anyways.
Yes, and the point is that each successive generation has a slightly different era of parents that influence their own parenting, etc. —for better or worse.
I personally think that it isn’t so much people that are increasingly expressing ADHD traits, it’s the world that’s more and more unforgiving of those traits. Everything is monitored and optimized and the volume of info we’re supposed to process every day is massive. We’re not built for this world and it shows. If we fail to fit the mold that produces the most value for stock holders we are deemed defective. We’re not. We’re just human.
The world changes massively in the 90s and then again every 10 years since. Each change affects the group that grows up during the change, making them much different than generations before. Older generations label this diversion as ADHD and attempt to correct the new generations back to the old ones.
While I appreciate your sentiment, the math doesn’t follow in the last sentence: 90s’ older generation is not the same as 20s’ older generation, and the latter is not “correcting” to said 90s’ target results. I feel that what you’re trying to land on is the seemingly exponential change to modern society since the 90s advent of various social/comms tech, though. 🙇🏼♂️
I’m a parent of kids born in the 10s, I was born in the 90s. Kids are still being diagnosed with adhd often as young as three. Its plenty of my peers my age that push this stuff too.
Generations are inheriting what they think “normal” should be from the generation before them, and they from the generation before them.
Its definitely not a hard rule. I’d expect people on lemmy to be more likely to be independent thinkers anyways.
Yes, and the point is that each successive generation has a slightly different era of parents that influence their own parenting, etc. —for better or worse.