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Heard this woman on radio diminishing the #Autism diagnosis, along with saying #ADHD does not exist in adults, and it has made me SO ANGRY. And she is getting huge media coverage.
@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – do no harm | Health, mind and body books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/12/the-age-of-diagnosis-by-suzanne-osullivan-review-do-no-harm
@niamhgarvey The walloper here is the author of the article. He must have had his head up his arse when he was a teenager, because ADD & ADHD were definitely around then. A very self-absorbed prat. Worse than RFKJr (who at least has drugs and a brain worm to excuse his stupidity), Rutherford rolls out the red carpet for his now very favourite author, who obviously has endorsed his every mistaken belief in his own infallibility.
It made for some nauseating reading. Right on cue, as we near Autistic Acceptance Month.
We Autistics must scare the 
out of NTs
@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
Don't know how old the author is, but I'm 46, and ADHD did not "exist" when I was young. I mean, it did not exist as a diagnostic, but looking back at some of my friends and my behavior, we were clearly different. That difference of "then" clearly aligns with ADHD traits of "now".
Saying something we didn't know about "didn't exist" is like saying atoms didn't exist before they were discovered.
@DoryTheFish@beige.party@axnxcamr @Tooden @niamhgarvey @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
Same! I'm 54 and only got diagnosed about 20 years ago. The meds I was given were "off label" then because ADHD didn't officially exist in adults.
Not knowing that I had ADHD and getting zero support for it has messed up my ability to study, and the first decades of my personal and professional life. I could have been a much better student, employee, mother, partner and friend if I had known I was not a bad, incompetent person.
Edit: an it's too bad it's so difficult to get a diagnosis because I'm pretty sure there's more to it and ADHD is not the only way I am neurodivergent.