> It also means you struggle in life, resulting in suicidality, aggressiveness and anti-social behaviour.
This is the stuff that seems like it could be dealt with by society being more accommodating rather than drugs.
This is the stuff that seems like it could be dealt with by society being more accommodating rather than drugs.
How do you define “chores”? It’s seems very true that people with ADHD find it hard to get through a to-do list in a linear fashion. If that is what it means to do chores, then maybe there is a way to prevent rubbish accumulating that doesn’t require that of you.
> that doesn't change that most of my friends don't find it difficult to take out the rubbish if they want to.
Do you want to take out the rubbish? Or do you start out wanting to and then want to do something else?
Both can occur but the first one is more problematic: I want to take out the rubbish but it feels like torture to force myself to start the task. It's not something easy to explain if you haven't experienced it, but it feels something like there's an invisible wall that prevents me from starting.
On meds there is almost no wall. I simply choose to do something and start doing it. It feels miraculous to me. Society has nothing to do with it.
I have had that experience and I know others who have it too. From my point of view that wall is me not wanting to do the task. The idea that I want to is not the same as actually wanting to. If I stop thinking that I want to do the task, and just do what I actually want to, then I will do a lot of different things, one of which will be taking out the trash.
The same goes for to-do lists. If I put things on a to-do list, it is almost impossible for me to make myself do any of them, let alone in order.
If instead I write them down on the list, but then just let myself do whatever is in front of me that feels like I can easily do, then things will simply chain together and I’ll find that I’ve done the things on the to-do list along with a l bunch of other turns that turn out to have been worth doing to.
> On meds there is almost no wall. I simply choose to do something and start doing it. It feels miraculous to me. Society has nothing to do with it.
In my view society has everything to do with thinking we need to do things in a linear fashion. I don’t dispute that meds will help you do that, nor do I dispute that work may require that you do it.
I do dispute that we need to operate that way.