00:00Pemberton isn't really coming at it from sort of like angry granddad, ADHD isn't a thing,
00:05they didn't have it in my day, everyone's just, you know, malingering. He's coming at it from
00:09actually quite a progressive viewpoint that I am broadly sympathetic with, which is that the idea
00:13that in the modern world, we are living in a very rigid and regimented society, and there's not much
00:19wiggle room for people who don't fit into that. And, you know, we're in a capitalist economy,
00:23the average worker does not have much control over their lives. You know, we have to be in a
00:27certain place at a certain time, we have to act a certain way, perform a certain set of tasks.
00:32I think that puts a lot of strain on most people. And if you are in some way neurodiverse, it
00:37can be
00:37even more of a strain. And I think where it starts to go a little bit off piece then is
00:41that Pemberton's
00:42angle appears to be taking from that that ADHD is basically a pathologization of a normal response
00:48to modern life. But I feel like it's probably more accurate to say that modern life is what can make
00:54ADHD and similar conditions particularly hard to live with. It doesn't mean that they're not real.
00:58But I think it is certainly true that the way that they intersect with modern life in the developed
01:03world, there is perhaps a vision of society where people with ADHD, particularly on the milder end of
01:11the spectrum, would be able to cope without medication.
