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“The New York Times Reruns Familiar ADHD Tropes”
The following is a professional commentary that reflects the opinions and experiences of its author.April 16, 2025Every few years, the ADHD community must endure another skeptic – an author, a journalist, a contrarian mental health provider, quite frequently a chiropractor – recycling claims like “ADHD is overdiagnosed,” “stimulants don’t work,” or, most remarkably in one case, “ADHD does not exist.”In every instance, including Paul Tough’s recent New York Times Magazine feature, the articles serve only to obfuscate the conversation about ADHD because:Invariably, in such analyses, clients of ADHD services are portrayed as hapless dupes of a psychiatric industrial complex hellbent on profiting from a made-up affliction that is really just the same thing that everyone else experiences but somehow handles quite nobly and with aplomb. In reality, almost no one seeking help for ADHD feels hoodwinked.