ADHD Argumentative Essay

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Personally dealing with the stigma of being diagnosed with multiple mental disorders, I find that one of the things I hear most from people is the question of how I got X disorder. For disorders like depression or anxiety it’s pretty common that people will make assumptions like the occurrence of some sort of trauma causing the disorder, which may be true for some, but there are a lot of people like myself who have shown signs of an anxiety disorder since early childhood. With suffering from ADHD I usually get asked by peers with young children or who plan to have children how I got ADHD as more of a preventative question. Though I understand their concern and why they would want to avoid their children going through life with ADHD, I often