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A casual community for people with ADHD
Values:
Acceptance, Openness, Understanding, Equality, Reciprocity.
Rules:
- No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments.
- No porn, gore, spam, or advertisements allowed.
- Do not request for donations.
- Do not link to other social media or paywalled content.
- Do not gatekeep or diagnose.
- Mark NSFW content accordingly.
- No racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, or ageism.
- Respectful venting, including dealing with oppressive neurotypical culture, is okay.
- Discussing other neurological problems like autism, anxiety, ptsd, and brain injury are allowed.
- Discussions regarding medication are allowed as long as you are describing your own situation and not telling others what to do (only qualified medical practitioners can prescribe medication).
Encouraged:
- Funny memes.
- Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
- Questions on confusing situations.
- Seeking and sharing support.
- Engagement in our values.
Relevant Lemmy communities:
lemmy.world/c/adhd will happily promote other ND communities as long as said communities demonstrate that they share our values.
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ADHD causes an increased risk of all sorts of addictions because we lack dopamine. That doesn’t mean all people with addictions have ADHD though. In Australia we have a huge issue with video gambling machines. We call them pokies here, and they’re in a lot of pubs and bars. I made myself a promise when I turned 18 that I would never play even once and I never have. Because they’re full of all kinds of things to keep you addicted and playing, and I knew they’d suck my brain in. Most social media is the same, and when TikTok became popular I promised myself I’d never download it.
I think people deciding social media/phone addiction is an ADHD problem and doing what you’re talking about is definitely a big issue. It detracts from actually ADHD people’s struggles, especially invalidating those with more potentially destructive addictions like gambling or hard drugs. It’s already hard enough to get help for drug addictions without being ceremoniously undiagnosed, because clearly you tricked the diagnosis out of someone for drugssss!
Edit: I should make clear that I’m familiar with this because I used to have an alcohol addiction.
Back in the 80s they blamed it on TV and video games. IF they thought it was real to begin with, many people just thought a good ass whoopin’ would straighten them out.
It rings true in a different way.
Social media is designed to take advantage of ADHD and amplify the problems, however it does not give people who don’t have it ADHD. Just might worsen a pre-existing condition.