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I fucking knew it, I SAID it: they’re making ADHD people the next culture war targets. They will ‘just ask questions’ until we lose every scrap of ground we’ve gained in the last decade and more. We may not quite inspire the same level of hatred as a sexual minority, but we can very easily be made to inspire disdain and that also works.
They will strip us of our accomodations and our medications and try to stifle any sense of shared identity, and if that kills some of us, oh well. So long as it fuels another outrage cycle, fine.
So many of the tropes they’ve been using on trans people work extremely well on ADHD people too! “There are too many of these people suddenly! It must be a fad! It spreads through friend groups! And online! People are going private for diagnoses and that’s bad! They are using pOwERfUl medical interventions and we think it’s freaky!”
I saw the first ripples of this in terf circles about two years ago. And of course it’s spread.
6% of British ADHD people lost their jobs in the last year thanks to the meds shortage. SIX PER CENT! And that just made these ghouls go “ooh, tasty, what else can we do?”
Recently an 'expert’ was on the BBC saying people see ADHD diagnosis as a “golden ticket.” Laurence Fox has been ranting that the condition doesn’t exist and threatening “'you won’t poison my child’s body [with ADHD meds] against my consent”
People need to be aware this is going to get worse. Maybe, if we’re lucky, it won’t get really bad. But it’s going to get worse than it is now.

The “ADHD is a fad and it’s overdiagnosed and overmedicated” rhetoric is… Ugh. It is at LEAST 20 years old. I remember this was a thing even back when the label “ADD” was more commonly used than “ADHD.” Pretty sure it dates back to the very earliest days of both those diagnoses.

And.. yeah, people are definitely not being any more reasonable about it now than they were then.

And yes it’s been getting worse. (Shortages ongoing for at least the past couple years, very little being done about it).

And I am angry as hell at what this is doing to my friends.

Wish I could do a whole hell of a lot more than just be angry for you.