Today we heard "Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnoses" [BBC]. ADHD is an underdiagnosed and undersupported medical issue.
ADHD is not overdiagnosed. A recent Lancet study published research that analysed 9 million GP records and showed just 0.32% of patients have a diagnosis of ADHD. That's nudging just 10% of the 3-4% of the population who have ADHD. We're underdiagnosed, not overdiagnosed. In addition, a BBC study showed the average wait for an ADHD diagnosis in England is 8 years. The idea that you can achieve overdiagnosis with an average wait of nearly a decade is just preposterous.
The targets of the announced report are laudable "to raise the healthiest generation, increase healthy life expectancy, and reduce suicide". People with ADHD are more at risk of suicide and have a lower life expectancy. 1 in 4 women, and 1 in 10 men, with ADHD will at some time try to take their own lives. On average, a woman with ADHD will die 9 years younger than her peers, and a man 7 years younger than his peers. The issues and challenges that ADHD can bring are finally being recognised, and our potentially naive hope is that this review will progress the recognition of ADHD.
However, we are very worried about the government's failure to bring a political solution to the rising cost of welfare, means they're instead looking to run roughshod over decades of medical progress and recognition. In particular for ADHD. #ADHD #ADHDUK
This is your obsession and it's pretty relentless and for no reason. You don't get to decided who or what anyone is except when you write. In the real world people can and always will be what they want to be. You can't stop it but you can continue to make young kids lives more difficult. You are cruel JK, you have started to look cruel in pictures. All this obsession is wearing on your expression. The pictures of you mocking 'trans' people like Winston Churchill after the Supreme Court ruling. Your endless comments about how rich you are. It's depressing and tacky and proves you are desperate to mean something but sadly you are just being mean. As my hilarious friend David Hoyle always says.
'Ladies & gentlemen and those of you still deciding. There are two type of people, nice people and c***s.
I do not expect any positive response and you will continue to be supported by women who see you as some kind of gender hero. Women are not better than men and men are not better than women. As a man, a biological one, rah, rah, I have no issue with a girl becoming a boy or the other way around. As a gay man who has worn make-up since 14 I had lived my entire life feeling awkward and afraid using male public toilets. It's not easy being different and you are only making it harder. Why don't you buy a nice Scottish island or a farm and start a JK commune for traumatised Terfs. Or listen to your fellow Scott Sydney Banks and he will hopefully help you understand that this is all in your head.
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