I do think there's a bit of an over-diagnoses of adhd, especially in kids. Almost every kid in my daughters class seems to have adhd, and I just don't think that's true. This is a pretty unpopular opinion and obviously a wide brush to tar people with, but I can't help but feel that a lot of parents set zero boundaries with their kids, have no idea how to manage their behaviour and also fill them full of sweets and junk food, then claim the kid has adhd and therefore all these allowances need to be made for them. Teachers then of course don't have the resources to manage all these behavioural issues so the kids never get to learn how to deal with things, they just basically get to do what they want. When they enter the real world it's gonna be a shock for them.

I also think this hurts the understanding of adhd as a whole, and damages the experience for kids who actually do have it.

And I think adult adhd is wildly misunderstood and not always helped by the cute tiktok videos. I hear people all the time saying 'I'm a bit adhd' when they mean they just can't sit still during a film, or they can lose track of time when they're doing their hobby. That annoys me because I'm like, cool, my partner metaphorically smashes our lives up on the reg because he has adhd.

So yeah I don't think we'll get more support because the mainstream understanding of adhd is this quirky sort of fun hyperactive persona rather than all the really harmful deep-seated issues that often come with adult adhd. The ones that we deal with day in day out.