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It's copium.

People don't want to think of themselves as of "diseased" or "disabled". So you get this strange phenomenon: people who are completely deaf, or lost an entire limb, and argue quite passionately that they're "not really disabled". Coping.

ADHD screws with executive function, attention and impulse control. All three are incredibly important for a person to function in a modern society. A person with severe untreated ADHD would be unable to hold almost any job. It's a disability.

But admitting that requires the kind of mental fortitude a lot of people simply don't have.