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Normal people feel sad. Feeling sad consistently and having it harm your life and not knowing how to fix it is called depression. People with these problems aren't aliens showing weird never been seen before behaviors or emotions, but their lives are consistently disrupted by these normal things. It's a problem of how often and how much the person can control it.
If normal people feel it, the first response to that behaviour should NOT be "ADHD", just pure statistics logic.
If you can't comprehend that, and those memes lead to people self-diagnosing as having a disease they don't have because they "can relate", that's just fucking stupid.
Wow, people are so extreme on the Internet. One comment saying maybe take a step back and we're already at "fucking stupid".
This comic is relevant to general human experience and ADHD, both are true and valid. The comic didn't tell people to self diagnose and no one here has told anyone to self diagnose.
It's a facilitator? Why can't you understand that?
It's akin to having paid publicity, normalizing ADHD with the goal of having more people want to join the categorization. Just so some individuals can propagate their group identity. There's no science behind saying something "is an ADHD behaviour" in any of the memes or posts within these communities.
Ergo they're basically propaganda, or misinformation to specify. It's maddening the amount of people who later self identify as having ADHD from memes.
If you can't see how that's infuriating, you're part of the problem.
I don't really find it infuriating and I don't think that makes me part of a problem. Self diagnosis can sometimes trivialize the people actually suffering from the problem, and there van be real harm there. So I definitely agree with you to some extent. But some people are so hungry for community that self diagnosing some problem like ADHD makes them part of something else. That's sad to me, but not infuriating.
I do understand that mislabeling normal things as a mental health issue can be problematic. I wish you didn't assume I thought otherwise from our small exchange. My point of responding was that I find it really annoying when people say "well everyone does or feels X so there's nothing wrong with you". I think that also does a lot of damage to people.
I'd say that the person on display in the comic doesn't seem to be showing "normal" or "healthy" procrastination to me, but there is room for disagreement I guess.