Eeesh, this feels too close to medication shaming to me - I know we all find different things effective but medication works extremely well for me and I've still got my moral code.
I thought he meant, that it seems that the "normals" would see someone that knows what is right or wrong as someone that's not "normal". Because "normal" people usually don't give a fuck about justice. "Normal" people have a very selfish moral code.
It's not the moral code that's the issue, it's that people with ADHD tend to act impulsively on things they view as unjust, like you're temporarily blinded to the consequences of your actions.
Medication can help a lot with making a more measured response, or deciding that's it's not worth it to pursue any further.
This is the joke. Absurdist hyperbole only works with a shared assumption or common sense to play against.
If there’s an intended target of this joke, it’s definitely not medication. It would be the inscrutability of the wording of that clinical guideline, which seems to imply morality is divergent but can be cured with stimulants.
Relax, it's called comedy
People are allowed to be critical of entertainment, and that includes comedy. In fact, sometimes you should be critical of things that people brand as "comedy".
Sometimes things are problematic, regardless of their intent as "comedy". And that's normal. Comedy often ages very poorly. Remember all those movies that used rape & sexual assault as a punchline? Should we not be critical of blackface because it's supposed to be "comedy"? Should we turn off our brains because "it's just a joke"?
You're allowed to laugh. Others are allowed to be more critical. Both are valid.
Relax.
I'll shame meds all day long because I am pissed off they force fed me them starting at age 7. I was strongly effected by the side effects to the point I truly believe it fucked my brain up a bit, but nobody seemed to care because I was quieter during class. I wasn't given a choice in the matter. I think it's ok to be against meds, and it's ok to be for them. They can do amazing things but they're not a fix all solution for everyone.
I think for some people they are good. For people like you and me not so much. I think that they permanently messed up my brain too. What are your symptoms?
Same with autism, neurodivergency in general.
We have strong roots to the early lgbt movement for a reason. Something with not fitting in with societal expectations.
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He was clearly roleplaying as the crass ignorant people who might think of justice as such
I understand that. His joke could have been made without it.
BTW. When the DSM-5 talks about "a strong sense of justice" this is what it talking about. It's not the sense of right and wrong that's diagnosing, it's missing the obvious fact that this joke came after what was probably 10-30 minutes of the comedian assessing how many people in the room were ADHD like him, then building up context that would allow the joke to land without hurting anyone's feelings.
Your point is retarded.
