James Bartlett :terminal:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@divya" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>divya</span></a></span><br>How utterly arbitrary and pointless. I was diagnosed with <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> as an adult in 2009 by my primary care physician at the time, and do you wanna know what the official diagnostic process was? A simple, 10-question self-assessment form with a cumulative score at the end.</p><p>THAT'S IT.</p><p>I answered truthfully, got my diagnosis, and I've been receiving treatment ever since. It makes me absolutely <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/furious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>furious</span></a> that patients seeking an ADHD diagnosis nowadays are being subjected to such a ridiculous process, which seems deliberately designed to prevent them from being diagnosed!</p><p>Making an untreated ADHD patient jump through countless administrative and scheduling hoops is like asking a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blind</span></a> person to solve one of those traffic light <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CAPTCHAs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CAPTCHAs</span></a>, or asking a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deaf</span></a> person to name the title and artist of a song playing on the radio.</p><p>Seriously, I'm losing my cool over here, and it's not just my <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hyperactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hyperactive</span></a> sense of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>injustice</span></a>. This kind of policy should be straight up illegal. 🤬</p>