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As a neuropharmacologist I can confidently say this is straight up misinformation. People with ADHD have such different brain chemistry compared with neurotypicals to the point that amphetamines and stimulants really do affect them differently
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This report uses skewed data to create a false narrative about who is actually struggling. In my observation, the highest overall proportion of young people claiming these disability benefits remains in the most deprived communities, not the wealthy ones. The sharp rise in affluent areas simply reflects richer families using private healthcare to bypass years of NHS waiting lists to secure paperwork. Furthermore, screening positive on a general questionnaire is a far cry from a formal clinical diagnosis that genuinely impacts daily functioning. The data does not show a sudden wealthy epidemic, it just exposes a system where those with cash can buy immediate medical recognition.
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UK is likely to try to reduce ADHD & autism diagnoses this week even though its own National Health Service funded report that ADHD is underdiagnosed & undertreated. Autism's criteria are already narrowed. See below and gifted article previewing UK report:
inews.co.uk/news/claims-mass…
NHS-funded 2025 ADHD Taskforce: “ADHD is under-recognised, under-diagnosed & under-treated" bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r235…
DSM-5 narrowed autism's diagnostic criteria (b4 link.springer.com/article/10…; since link.springer.com/article/10…); diagnoses stable/declining in males pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
From the chair of the NHS task force on ADHD, Prof Anita Thapar about early intervention for ADHD. Now contrast this with the stupidity of Weasley Wessely and Fonargy’s idea on rationing services for ADHD. psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/…
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When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published its highly influential 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, it relied extensively on observational data and expert consensus rather than high-quality, reproducible randomized controlled…
I have been saying this over and over: psychologists and even psychiatrists are biased in their views about ADHD & Autism. Think Naomi Fisher, Uta Frith, Joanna Moncrieff.
Bias in ADHD and autism diagnosis | OpenLearn - Open University open.edu/openlearn/education…
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“Stimulant medications make boring tasks (like math homework, spreadsheets, laundry) feel more important and worthwhile. This helps people stick with these tasks longer and put in more effort.” 1/
ADHD Beyond Stimulants, and Stimulants Beyond ADHD
Your brain on stimulants vs your brain on ADHD
psychiatrymargins.com/p/adhd…
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The reason they’re going after ADHD is because it’s disability they have the best chance of discrediting in public opinion. We’re being used as a wedge and the end goal is attacking all disabled people
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I'd argue that you absolutely do not have to understand most concepts.
There is really no difference between knowing that x^2=1/x^-2 (if x!=0) and understanding why that is.
You can use this fact to solve an integral without understanding anything.
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I wonder whether certain individuals will update their worldview and stop the scaremongering
medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/…
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I had suspected that it was basically an expensive placebo(or worse) when the researchers ignored well replicated basic cognitive science findings and always cited n=40 nonreplicable studies correlating wm/g with learning speed
The latter also gives them a convenient explanation
Where is the evidence for her claims? Or any of these “critical” idiots. They can’t offer up peer reviewed evidence. In fact that misconstrue studies and ignore studies that contradict their cited sources. This woman can’t refute 5 decades of evidence & research.
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The ‘Great ADHD Myth’ conclusion seemed to be that if we changed education fundamentally, and radically improve structure, sleep, good, exercise, access to nature, social relationships, and support, then much of the need for ADHD diagnosis and treatment might disappear. OK.
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No, they really aren't.
I'm an edtech extremist but RCTs show very small to negative effects.
(Math textbooks suck too though, evidence shows that working out a solution on your own is not superior to being told the steps to achieve the solution.
Evidence>>>intuition )
Once again, Naomi does not clearly understand what ADHD is. She doesn’t understand the neurobiology underpinning #ADHD. The visual cortex and the prefrontal cortex are compromised in ADHD, and there is evidence for this. Inattention is not a lapse of concentration.
In 2020, a student heard about object permanence in his undergrad psychology course. Object permanence is an early developmental stage when children come to understand that an object is still there, even when they can’t see it. It is acquired around the age of 18 months. Without it, we’d be profoundly disabled. Dogs have object permanence - if they didn’t, they would not chase after balls.
That student made a TikTok video, claiming that object permanence was actually a symptom of his ADHD. He said when he couldn’t see things anymore, it was like they did not exist for him. Others picked it up and more videos appeared. It spread. Blog posts were written which described fairly typical forgetfulness, and called it object permanence. Walk into a room and forget what you came for? Perhaps you lack object permanence, and therefore have ADHD. The more it was talked about, the wider it spread. Infographics appeared. Losing your keys could, apparently, be a sign of poor object permanence.
By 2025, parents were telling me that their teens had poor object permanence, and that’s why they couldn’t keep up with friends.
By 2026, author and influencer Alex Partridge wrote in his bestselling book that object permanence was a symptom of ADHD.
Object permanence went from one undergraduate’s TikTok video to mainstream acceptance within a few years. Most people now have no idea where it came from, or what the original concept of object permanence was. It’s become part of ADHD.
And that’s how new ideas are emerging and gaining credibility in neurodivergence. No science, no scrutiny - all it takes is a TikTok post and a catchy name.
Owen Chevalier tracked the evolution of object permanence in his paper, referenced below.
Are there other terms like this that you’ve noticed emerging?
Chevalier, O. (2024). "It starts on TikTok": Looping effects and the impact of social media on psychiatric terms. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 31(2).
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It’s hard to understate how deeply colonial, and racist, mental health ideology is. Colonialism devastates societies and economies. It requires justifying principles such as the need to civilise the purportedly backward peoples, who are painted as psychologically primitive.
No all religions dehumanized you or claimed you weren't human. This is all secular apologia unless you concede secularism dehumanizes you and also thinks you aren't human.
Happens to everyone except us enlightened liberals. Look who is the problem.
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I've been meaning to get this out for a while now. My latest post on evaluating and measuring PEM in ME/CFS research and clinical practice, focusing on the clinimetric properties of the DSQ-PEM, is now up on @substack.
Hope you enjoy it. Link to the post is in the first reply.