I mean, it is absolutely a disabling condition but it’s just, within disability advocacy we generally talk about what the functional impact is as the disability, not the condition that caused it. So, with ADHD you have functional impacts like being unable to complete a task because of a mental block. When those tasks are ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) like feeding oneself, drinking water, going to the bathroom, even stuff like booking a doctor’s appt for prescription repeats, that itself is the disability that ADHD is causing. Psychosocial disability is just the umbrella term for those collective difficulties around completing ADLs due to psychological conditions, such as ADHD, Autism, Bipolar, etc, and yes also the way those react with society as a whole but also like, every one’s gotta eat, ya know?
Anyway, like I said it’s just a little nitpick. It’s similar, but the opposite to people saying that being in a wheelchair is a disability and it’s like no, it’s a mobility disability that causes a need to use the wheelchair.
And thank you for that “nitpick”. Despite previously being on roughly the same page, I learned a bit in terminology that I was not aware of that helps to better describe things.
I mean, it is absolutely a disabling condition but it’s just, within disability advocacy we generally talk about what the functional impact is as the disability, not the condition that caused it. So, with ADHD you have functional impacts like being unable to complete a task because of a mental block. When those tasks are ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) like feeding oneself, drinking water, going to the bathroom, even stuff like booking a doctor’s appt for prescription repeats, that itself is the disability that ADHD is causing. Psychosocial disability is just the umbrella term for those collective difficulties around completing ADLs due to psychological conditions, such as ADHD, Autism, Bipolar, etc, and yes also the way those react with society as a whole but also like, every one’s gotta eat, ya know?
Anyway, like I said it’s just a little nitpick. It’s similar, but the opposite to people saying that being in a wheelchair is a disability and it’s like no, it’s a mobility disability that causes a need to use the wheelchair.
And thank you for that “nitpick”. Despite previously being on roughly the same page, I learned a bit in terminology that I was not aware of that helps to better describe things.