And yet, thanks to all the scaremongering stigma about ADHD meds back in the nineties and noughties, it can be really difficult to actually get those meds. Here in the UK we're going through a supply shortage. I hear a lot of neurodivergent people in the US reporting having to jump through hoops to keep their prescriptions when they change jobs or doctors and the new one decides on a whim that they don't need their meds because "too many people on them, diet meth™ bad".

Thousand percent agree that school age kids shouldn't be mass prescribed meds as a form of behavioural control and generally the entire school system and job market are built to be a total nightmare for neurodivergent folk (well, everyone really), and environmental change is better than making it the responsibility of every individual to medicate away the trauma.

But can we please make the distinction between that and adults who have the agency to choose to be on the "ever so addictive SPEED" (which we are always forgetting to take and need to set alarms on our phones to take) and find them effective for navigating our neocapitalist societies where stimulant meds are required to kick our executive function into drive enough that we don't get fired from every job and die, thanks.

/slightly unhinged grumbling