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Now I’m Going To Have to Eat My Words. Everybody is ADHD these Days!

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Gill Capper
Feb 18, 2025
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I’m one of those members of my generation who harrumph about the creeping pathologisation of human nature. I’ve been guilty of rolling my eyes and saying, ‘everybody is ADHD these days!’. I’ve sighed – ‘whatever next’ - over the latest diagnostic sub-category (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, Pathological Demand Avoidance, Oppositional Defiant Disorder et…

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