While I am happy more people are talking about their experiences with ADHD, dyslexia, autism, et al and how these things effect their lives and functionality I do think it is important to stress that people should be careful. Symptomology and Diagnosis are tricky fields and its easy to forget a person might not have all the symptoms (or might display the symptoms differently) but still have something like dyslexia

And on top of that while we might have a better understanding of ADHD, Dyslexia, Austism, and so on these things are not perfectly understood (there is a good argument that what we call Dyslexia and ADHD might actually be several different things with interelated symptoms)

I am not saying dont pursue diagnosis and treatment. Rather I am saying treat peoples experiences carefully and remember people are individiuals with individual neurochemistry and experiences

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