I'm just going to start posting after Krayz in every thread

There's been a couple of times I wanted to ask you a dumb question about your posts to confuse people but I haven't found a hilarious opportunity yet.

FWIW I know what he means by it. I was on ritalin through 5th grade, since then I have had an extremely easy time focusing when I want to. I only run into trouble when I am asked to do work that I don't want to do.

Didn't know I was ADHD. Hyperactivity explains a LOT about me.

Xebeche/NoThumb/NT!/Mr. Clean/ham on rye was the worst ****ing mod in the history of anything.

If this is true it doesn't appear to be the psychiatric consensus based on current practice. I understand that practice is affected by many incentives, and that it often lags the cutting edge of theory, but: on what basis are you claiming that you know these people are misdiagnosed and the doctors don't?

Uh, what? Procrastination, finding distractions from unpleasant work, avoidance of arduous/involved tasks.

Here are some symptoms from the DSM-IV that can easily be interpreted as laziness:
(a) often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work or other activities
(d) often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions)
(e) often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities
(f) often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort (such as schoolwork or homework)

DSM for ADHD

That's not laziness Das Boot. You're looking at it through a lens of not wanting to do it. ADHD is not being able to do it.

And asking me how I know they are misdiagnosed seems silly since that's what everyone ITT has already said about the condition as a whole. It's a mostly uninformed opinion.

Dibs tho

Right but his point is that laziness is often misconstrued as ADHD, not that ADHD is a myth.

Thinking over the history of my life, the vast majority of my inattentiveness was due to laziness. There have been many occasions where I felt pressured to step up my performance in areas where I was slacking, and I had little issue focusing then.

I'm still a hyperactive **** though. And at least kind of inattentive.

lol DSM

The APA is the biggest bunch of frauds since the steelers

I think you're talking to me here, but that's exactly what I'm saying? His point is my point I guess, Idk why he's challenging me about it.

While I have no respect for massive sections of psychology as a field, this is ******ed.

OK. I'm having a hard time focusing on this argument tbh

Yes, but he is/was pretty elite at getting the haters/4l'ers FURIOUS

Agreed. They're actually the biggest frauds since the Lakers.

I guess I didn't make my point well enough - ADHD is claimed by many people more than it is diagnosed. This is the source of most of the misinformation regarding its prevalence in today's world. It's more diagnosed at any time in history - this is common with any other neurological or behavioral disorder. It's diagnosed more than it should be but it isn't nearly as bad as people claiming it as a self diagnosis. It being diagnosed more than it should be is due to the treatments for it being effective in children who might not have it but need some sort of medication to function. Schools cant handle children that don't behave in the way they are expected to and look for an outlet for someone else to solve this for them. There is no aspect of laziness in 'real' ADHD, the issue comes with lack of concentration and frustration with trying to perform tasks. This is what I understand of it as far as my discussions with professionals have been.

That's rich coming from a Jets homer.

I think this discussion points out the huge problems in treating all mental disorders, not just ADHD. Many of the thresholds used to diagnose patients are extremely arbitrary and based on ****ty science. In addition, the characterization of what constitutes a 'disorder' are based on social expectations of individuals, not neurobiology.

This might be the most wrong post in SE history

Yes, I think I (we?) understand and agree with this. What I'm saying is that there is a tendency - speaking from experience - to use ADHD as a catch-all for one's shortcomings when in fact it's a red herring some of the time. Of course that leaves the rest of the time in which case it is a legitimate excuse for many.

This is kind of a pointless aside we've gotten into for some reason and I'm probably not explaining it well.

Why do you think it's wrong?

You misunderstand the point I'm making. The symptoms I listed are diagnostic symptoms of ADHD that can easily be taken as symptoms of laziness. That's the obvious counterpoint to what you posted, "And laziness has no similar symptoms to real ADHD."

But that brings up a crucial point - how can you separate "not wanting to do something" and "not being able to do something" for tasks that one is mentally and physically capable of completing? Whatever you want to call it - willpower, focus, mental discipline - aren't these ultimately and fundamentally linked? My perception is that ADHD sufferers often have little trouble focusing on tasks that they find interesting and challenging; it's the boring or unstimulating tasks -- the stuff one doesn't want to do -- that cause the problem.

So what do they have? If they fall behind standard development of attention and focus, aren't functioning to their full potential in school due to lack of focus, and meet the requisite number of symptoms from the checklist, what else do you call it? Sure seems like ADHD per the DSM.

I fully agree. But children are expected to function in the current school system - it's essentially a social requirement. Most people will not have the power to change society in this regard.

Semantics, as far as I can tell.

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You're taking can't as not having willpower or mental discipline Boot afaict. This isn't the case.

As far as you citing the guidelines - the symptoms cause I was referring to - not the symptoms themselves. I don't think of symptoms of ADHD being dislinked from the reason why it occurs. Laziness of not doing your homework wouldn't be a symptom to me but apparently it is by the short snippet you posted? But with all things it's a combination of factors, you can't take a subset of symptoms and say if someone falls under that subset they should be diagnosed with that condition. Otherwise we'd all be schizophrenic psychotics

I've always wondered; is there such a thing as attention control deficite? Because my problem often seems to be too much focus and an inability to not complete tasks. At other times it's more like the traditional described ADHD. I don't really get to choose which mode I'm in.