Doesn't the fact that ADHD diagnostic criteria have changed over the years prove it's basically a made-up, arbitrary category?
Common argument that since diagnostic criteria for ADHD have been revised multiple times over past decades, that instability itself proves the condition isn't a real, fixed, biological thing, more like a shifting social construct that gets redefined whenever convenient.
2026-07-19 09:30838 views
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doom_pile_curator
Good point about this logic applying to basically all of medicine if taken seriously, diabetes diagnostic criteria have changed over decades too, nobody argues that means diabetes isn't real. Never thought about the comparison that way before.
2026-07-20 13:45 263 views
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