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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin• 5 months ago

my Vietnamese mom said stuff like this when i talked about ADHD, then she read about ADHD symptoms in undiagnosed adult women, started taking medication, then cried about how she'd missed out on being normal her whole life.

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin• 5 months ago

Replying to @menhguin

u can trace ADHD back through our entire family tree as well, pre-1900s when we were on farms. this meme that ADHD is some American middle class white boy hysteria just doesn't make any sense when you have people w the same symptoms, in completely different contexts, globally

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin• 5 months ago

Replying to @menhguin

like ok, it's valid to say some demographics are getting overdiagnosed for cultural reasons or social incentives, but the vast majority of ADHD cases are undiagnosed. that's the nature of misdiagnosis in generally.

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lovecrypt music@lovecrypt• 5 months ago

Replying to @menhguin

@menhguin Stimulants make people feel good, but that doesn't mean unmedicated people have a disorder.

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin• 5 months ago

Replying to @lovecrypt

@lovecrypt Ozempic makes people feel good, but that doesn't mean unmedicated people have diabetes.

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rissa 𓂃 ོ☼𓂃 40/40 early sleep@rissaoffline• 5 months ago

Replying to @menhguin

@menhguin Shoutout to your vietnamese mom bc i wish the same for my vietnamese dad. It’s heartbreaking to watch them struggle and realize u were the same way

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin• 5 months ago

Replying to @rissaoffline

@rissaoffline alas, the adhd gene rizz is too strong https://t.co/kQC4xpGFC0

Nicholas Fabiano, MD@NTFabiano• 6 months ago

Relative reproductive success (RLRS) is highest for ADHD. https://t.co/gMncGHGk3p

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egirlian 🌸@egirlian• 5 months ago

Replying to @menhguin

@menhguin wow, another story about someone taking prescription dextroamphetamine for the first time and then having a euphoric emotional reaction where they declare “oh this must be what normal feels like!!”

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin• 5 months ago

Replying to @egirlian

@egirlian once again, this does not actually happen to people with ADHD, and has been brought up multiple times ITT. it would have taken you all of 10 seconds to not look like a dumbass. https://t.co/eyZ2bWA6UR

Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin• 5 months ago

@acymetric There's like dozens of replies across this thread and links to studies about how people with ADHD don't actually feel good taking stimulants. Maybe if you had taken the time to read any of them or been informed about the topic in any meaningful way, but alas, here we are.

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Juan@mindswimai• 5 months ago

Replying to @menhguin

@menhguin I would like to poke my head into universes in which my brother received stimulant treatment for ADHD to see if he'd nonetheless continue ending up in cycles of incarceration and drug abuse.

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin• 5 months ago

Replying to @mindswimai

@mindswimai ADHD is like wildly overrepresentd wrt substance abuse and incarceration. Idk about your bro but untreated ADHD prolly contributes.

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