Interesting: the 4th sentence shows Andrew Yang publicly acknowledging that many "ADHD" diagnoses are spurious, i.e. in those spurious cases it's just a fancy medical-sounding term for students who are struggling academically:
> Boys and men across all regions and ethnic groups have been failing, both absolutely and relatively, for years. [...] The data are clear. Boys are more than twice as likely as girls to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [...]
I agree that the massive increase in the US and UK over the last 20 years in the use of medical jargon such as "dyslexia" and "ADHD" in high school educational contexts isn't a helpful strategy for society to be taking.
These spurious “cases” are also incredibly damaging to those who have a legitimate and innate case of ADHD that persists into adulthood. I also think Yang’s writing here doesn’t help on that front - there are lots of real people with a real disability that goes way beyond just a short attention span.
> Boys and men across all regions and ethnic groups have been failing, both absolutely and relatively, for years. [...] The data are clear. Boys are more than twice as likely as girls to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [...]
I agree that the massive increase in the US and UK over the last 20 years in the use of medical jargon such as "dyslexia" and "ADHD" in high school educational contexts isn't a helpful strategy for society to be taking.