Because the vast majority of people do not argue based on information but on their personal feelings, relying heavily on fallacy in an attempt to reaffirm their own perspectives rather than come to an understanding. This is just how human minds are predisposed to function with our internal logic due to inherent flaws of human psychology. Most people never bother with the practice of introspection to correct these internal biases because they don’t even know that they exist. They think their logic is sound, and it is your job to “prove them wrong”.

Taking classes in college around how to design, essentially, political propaganda to influence people into supporting your legislation (I went to school for wildlife conservation and a lot of that degree is fucking with politics to get legislation passed) really opened my eyes to this.

YES!

Wish I could remember their name but there is an adorable black woman somewhere who makes TikTok videos about foraging and forgotten staples that we humans used to use from the land we live on. Very solar punk vibe. She did an entire video on acorns.

Acorn and nutmeg cookies fucking slap.

Hi. It me. (I have both)

Nah, Neurodivergence has always existed but the structure of our society and the degradation of our communal nature in favor of hyper-individualist, rugged capitalism has destroyed what alternatives we used to have access to that allowed us to live our lives without unnecessary burden. Our day-to-day lives in this era are so controlled by arbitrary, outside forces in such a way that doesn’t allow for any wiggle room anymore that those of us who struggle to fall in line are unduly punished by the strict adherence to the system.

The structure of life was fundamentally different during pre-modern times; they had access to communal resources (i.e. the Commons) that just don’t exist today. They could structure their lives in ways that weren’t hindered by their neurodivergence; they could take an alternative to reach the same goal. In feudal times, the ruling authorities just kinda let communities run things how they wished with little oversight so long as the towns were more or less were not breaking any laws set by the ruling authority and were paying their taxes. There wasn’t tech or corporatized structure to micromanage every individual action of the people under their purview. There was wiggle room at the interpersonal level that allowed people to work out how to solve disputes and strike deals between themselves without needing to involve a higher authority for permission to do things the way they were most comfortable doing it.

Feudal life was a lot more complex and intricate than people give it credit for. It wasn’t perfect, there was definitely overt oppression happening during those times, but it did have its benefits, not from the system itself but from how that system wasn’t as controlling over our day-to-day as our current, corporatized society.

This isn’t even to mention other, non-European societies and their fundamentally different structures that sadly were wiped from the map due to imperialist conquest.

This. It never works for me. They always happen at an inopportune time and I just swipe it away. 10 seconds later I forget I even swiped away something, so I don’t even get to reschedule it.

If I stop to reschedule it, I lose my flow of whatever else I was doing and then that doesn’t get done because the momentum is gone.

So I guess AuADHD just doesn’t exist to you then, huh? You have no clue about proper mental health and the challenges people experience.

Seriously, shut the fuck up.

As someone with a family who absolutely doesn’t give a single shit about the difficulty of living with ADHD and just tells me to “get over it and stop being so lazy”… yes, they most likely didn’t have anyone willing to lend a hand and help them in the way they needed help because regular people don’t tend to think of the things we struggle with as being challenging enough to warrant needing assistance with.

Having a supportive community is a privilege that so many take for granted.