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[quote=Anonymous]For adhd I think schools and in particular US schools (and sometimes parents) expect a level of independent exec functioning from a very young age now. 
When I talked to friends in class at school growing up we got separated and told off. Same if we weren’t paying attention. No one thought it was something we fundamentally needed help with. And sometimes on adhd parent Facebook I see parents who are like ‘my kids have a host of things they have to do every am and they always forget at least 3’ - I can’t handle a host of things first thing now and I’m an adult. 
We are expected to self regulate and independently operate or are considered ‘non typical’. Not that adhd isnt real and does not need assistance - my kid has been real hyperactive/ impulsive/ emotional/ bouncing off walls adhd. In the past he’d have been considered ‘just a boy’ and we would have done a lot of sports. Not sure it’s so much worse tbh. And asd tbh I’ve started to wonder if I have asd based on some of the comments on this board (need downtime to decompress/ anxiety/ introversion) but if I am then indeed yes so is everyone. The truth is I think many of us have aspects of the spectrum but the number and type you need to qualify for a dx has expanded so much it is very hard to know where the line is now which dilutes the diagnosis quite a bit

Tldr i suspect we are moving towards a new way of diagnosing where different ‘traits’ will be linked together to help build a more specific picture rather than relying on 2 diagnoses to cover the range of human differences and then wondering why so many people are now on or the other or both [/quote]

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