CH truly is a c**t.
I also have ADHD and the misconception that our medication makes us hyperactive and pumped is a horrendous one. Even if someone without ADHD took it, they wouldn’t behave in such a manner. Yes, it’s amphetamine based, but it is a minute dose of it. It’s a misconception I’ve dealt with for years and the reason there is such an horrific stigma around medication - medication that can truly change peoples lives.
She’s feeding it here whilst claiming to be ADHD herself. If she truly had ADHD, medication would have been a rebirth for her like it is for many true ADHDers. You realise what you’ve been missing and how life changing it truly is. Especially being diagnosed so later on in life. You see what you’ve been missing all these years. Why you just couldn’t get on like everyone else did. You feel hurt when people see the thing that keeps you on the straight and narrow viewed in such a prejudice way. You don’t add to it.
She paid for a diagnosis so she could get medication that boosts people without ADHD performance. They aren’t performance enhancers if you don’t have it. They’re a lifeline. Convenient that she was “diagnosed” and given what to a normal non-ADHD brain would be a performance enhancer at the time she was writing her book. Much like uni students buy them off their ADHD mates to give them an edge whilst battling so much work.
For us ADHDers, it puts us on an even keel with the rest of the world. It doesn’t boost me in any way. It just makes me like everyone else, ABLE TO FUNCTION.
The ADHD community sees you Caroline and you are shameful. This is what we fight against every single day. It is a smack in the mouth to see one of “our own” joining in with perpetuating a MYTH about ADHD medication.
She truly makes me sick.