SCAM ALERT! PEOPLE THINK ADHD IS A SCAM!

I wrote a poem in response to this article. People who were autistic were treated in a similar way before awareness training and no one is just a little bit ADHD, you either have a diagnosis or not. 

You say it's a trick, a trend,  

a queue-jump for pity, a handout.  

But I see them—  

the ones who move like hummingbirds,  

thoughts flickering, hands restless,  

words slipping like water through fingers.  

I know what it is to be measured,  

to have your struggle held up to the light  

like a counterfeit note,  

to hear everyone’s a little bit like that. 

To hear it’s overdiagnosed.  

To hear it’s just a label for the weak.  

They said the same about autism, once—  

that we were just awkward, shy,  

boys without eye contact, girls who’d grow out of it.  

A phase. A fad. A failure to try hard enough.  

Their chaos is not mine,  

but I recognize the weight of it—  

the exhaustion of performing a self  

that fits in.  

I know what it is to drown in a room  

full of people who don’t understand  

why the simplest things  

can feel like fire.  

You say they are faking,  

but I have seen them burn.