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I've worked remotely for years. With the "raise hand" options its usually a very "talking pillow" type of taking turns.

Rarely there's back and forth but it's clear when someone talks over another and you can thankfully mute people.

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I love how the men who can't help but pipe up about how "ackchyually" this isn't the case because reasons all magically happen to anecdotally be the statistical anomalies of what decades of research (not to mention their reflexive reaction) has repeatedly proven is a real problem that exists across all walks of life.

Like pretty much all posts about anything even remotely feminism related, it is a self selection mechanism that they just can't help but react to.

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I agreed with your perspective on not suggesting drugs, however you seemed equally defensive about the mere mention of ADHD as well. It is perfectly acceptable to suggest to someone they get checked for it if they are struggling with some very common symptoms. OP was genuinely looking for suggestions there and a number of people had the same suggestion. Seemed reasonable enough to me.

As far as "fad" goes- It's been thoroughly researched and isolated down to a specific chemical imbalance. Is it common? yes- but it's also been suggested that a lot of current environments are designed to fuck with your attention; Someone with ADHD would be far less able to cope with it. Perhaps it's just more noticeable now.

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I believe the old Internet can provide us with the most appropriate response:

"Shut up and make me a sammich."

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Alright. I agree with everything you say.

I dislike the idea of drugs as a "fix" as they are not and the idea of fixing is not very reasonable an end goal.

Also yes the world is designed to pick at that and it clearly is affecting and dragging down people further up the spectrum of capable time management.
This culture of recommending specific name brand drugs is not one I am comfortable with and one I don't agree with doing as it really only supports the manufacturer and not the sufferer.

I think we agree that people should be able to get real and helpful diagnoses but I disagree the path of getting there that is often used skipping steps and is far to socially spread, especially using the same mechanisms that eat at people to make their symptoms worse.