[giraffe_lady]

> A lot of adult ADHD diagnoses came from the pandemic because a lot of people were suddenly without the structure of an office and became adrift and unproductive. The office provided body doubling, some executive functioning, some help with time blindness, a prosthetic environment and more and now they had to make it themselves without any direction while suffering from poor executive functioning.

Well, and now we have diagnoses and corresponding treatment, intentional & personalized interventions rather than accidental and incomplete ones.

[dgellow]

And adult ADHD diagnosis wasn’t a thing until not that long ago

[borski]

I don’t think parent meant it as a negative thing. Those are all good things.

It is undeniably true, though, that the pandemic forced a lot of people to do a lot of self-analysis and reflection.