i'm so glad someone brought this up. the thing about this that really scares me is what it's doing to the viewers.
my boyfriend's sister has been obsessed with tumblr/youtube for the past few months, and apparently every single person on tumblr has some sort of anxiety/depression/something wrong with them, and it's really rubbing off on her. i've known her for years and in all that time, she's always been a very bright, outgoing girl. never had any trouble making friends, she was in school plays, very involved at her church, loved going to concerts... always around people, basically. but last month, she tried to convince me and my best friend (who's also friends with her) that she's agoraphobic and has social anxiety so badly that she can't leave her room. this is very, very not true. and even when discussing it with my friend, we're very suspicious that it comes from watching people like charlieissocoollike on youtube, or the people she follows on tumblr/twitter.
like, it's not cool to have something 'wrong with you'. it's not cute to have anxiety or be depressed, it sucks. i'm a little worried for her but mostly i'm just pissed off for all the people who actually have legitimate social anxiety because all of a sudden it's a 'trend'.
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Oh lort, that's awful. I hope that this trend will die down soon, people are bound to become unwell in some way if they act like they are. For example, if your boyfriend's sister actually ends up staying inside a lot because she tells herself she's awkward & unable to interact with others properly, what's that going to do to her?sfg wrote:i'm so glad someone brought this up. the thing about this that really scares me is what it's doing to the viewers.
my boyfriend's sister has been obsessed with tumblr/youtube for the past few months, and apparently every single person on tumblr has some sort of anxiety/depression/something wrong with them, and it's really rubbing off on her. i've known her for years and in all that time, she's always been a very bright, outgoing girl. never had any trouble making friends, she was in school plays, very involved at her church, loved going to concerts... always around people, basically. but last month, she tried to convince me and my best friend (who's also friends with her) that she's agoraphobic and has social anxiety so badly that she can't leave her room. this is very, very not true. and even when discussing it with my friend, we're very suspicious that it comes from watching people like charlieissocoollike on youtube, or the people she follows on tumblr/twitter.
like, it's not cool to have something 'wrong with you'. it's not cute to have anxiety or be depressed, it sucks. i'm a little worried for her but mostly i'm just pissed off for all the people who actually have legitimate social anxiety because all of a sudden it's a 'trend'.
I sincerely hope that YouTubers & generally people that have large audiences & some sort of influence on people will stop this soon. Some people are starting to address this but there are still too many people that need to stop with this.
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I think Charlie's "awkwardness" is genuine. He has been like that since he started making vids, and I saw some interviews with him, and that Comic Relief video where he's being covered in honey and feathers then Tim Minchi (comedian) walks in unexpectedly, I can sense his awkward/shyness.
It's annoying when someone claims to have social anxiety but then you see pictures of them out clubbing and dancing and drinking.
It's annoying when someone claims to have social anxiety but then you see pictures of them out clubbing and dancing and drinking.
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I know this isn't really relevant but for some reason this board reminds me of this generic hispter/Zooey Deschanel wannabe: https://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainAnastasjia/videos
She's not as annoying as most, I dunno-maybe I'm just labeling. That aside, I can't differentiate those that proclaim having social anxiety/depression (namely beauty gurus/popular Youtubers) and those that actually do. I had social anxiety because I was insecure and would over-analyze my every breath whereas from what I've heard, some people who claim to have it (don't elaborate) seem to have no trigger/reason- they just (seemingly) spontaneously convulse/cry/can't breathe. So sometimes I think it's all in the people in question's head, but then again social anxiety is different for everyone.
She's not as annoying as most, I dunno-maybe I'm just labeling. That aside, I can't differentiate those that proclaim having social anxiety/depression (namely beauty gurus/popular Youtubers) and those that actually do. I had social anxiety because I was insecure and would over-analyze my every breath whereas from what I've heard, some people who claim to have it (don't elaborate) seem to have no trigger/reason- they just (seemingly) spontaneously convulse/cry/can't breathe. So sometimes I think it's all in the people in question's head, but then again social anxiety is different for everyone.
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Been reading this thread and made an account (finally! been following the forums for a while now) just to chime in. I have diagnosed chronic major depression and social anxiety disorder. It is completely frustrating to me that people undermine these conditions by self-diagnosing themselves and using it for attention. There's nothing good about these mental illnesses. They're debilitating and they ruin your quality of life.
SAD literally swallowed my life and spit a fragment of it back up. I've always had a mild form of it but it really flared up towards the end of my freshman year of college. I had a major falling out with most of the friends I made freshman year which shook my confidence. I was struggling to figure out my religious beliefs which caused rifts between my boyfriend and I. A man who sexually abused me was going to the same college I was and if I even saw him on campus I'd run to the nearest bathroom, have a panic attack and debate on going home rather than go to class.
Fast forward to around the middle of junior year -- I was making excuses in my head to not leave my on-campus apartment. Walking through campus was the single most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life. I would be absolutely convinced EVERYONE was staring at me. It was the worst feeling in the world. I would feel sick to my stomach, make frequent "panic attack" trips to the bathroom and frequently never made it to class. I developed a fear of my professors, no matter how nice they were. My school e-mail was neglected constantly because I would get panicked at the thought of opening it up and seeing some condemning message from a professor. I drove myself with the depression and extreme anxiety to the mental ward at a local hospital. After a week there they officially gave me the diagnosis for both depression and SAD.
I've struggled badly ever since. I dropped out of school. My only friend is my boyfriend. I have a hard time talking to anyone other than him or my immediate family. The internet is my escape. This is NOT glamorous and NOT something you should fake. Ugh. Sorry for the lengthy post. This is just so frustrating to see when you've been where I've been. My life isn't normal.
SAD literally swallowed my life and spit a fragment of it back up. I've always had a mild form of it but it really flared up towards the end of my freshman year of college. I had a major falling out with most of the friends I made freshman year which shook my confidence. I was struggling to figure out my religious beliefs which caused rifts between my boyfriend and I. A man who sexually abused me was going to the same college I was and if I even saw him on campus I'd run to the nearest bathroom, have a panic attack and debate on going home rather than go to class.
Fast forward to around the middle of junior year -- I was making excuses in my head to not leave my on-campus apartment. Walking through campus was the single most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life. I would be absolutely convinced EVERYONE was staring at me. It was the worst feeling in the world. I would feel sick to my stomach, make frequent "panic attack" trips to the bathroom and frequently never made it to class. I developed a fear of my professors, no matter how nice they were. My school e-mail was neglected constantly because I would get panicked at the thought of opening it up and seeing some condemning message from a professor. I drove myself with the depression and extreme anxiety to the mental ward at a local hospital. After a week there they officially gave me the diagnosis for both depression and SAD.
I've struggled badly ever since. I dropped out of school. My only friend is my boyfriend. I have a hard time talking to anyone other than him or my immediate family. The internet is my escape. This is NOT glamorous and NOT something you should fake. Ugh. Sorry for the lengthy post. This is just so frustrating to see when you've been where I've been. My life isn't normal.
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I understood the sentiment when discussions like this began popping up around the internet a year or two ago. I understood the frustration and the resentment. But it's quickly become a witch hunt, and this thread epitomizes that in a very unsettling way.
Mental illness is not a Club 33. It's not the cool kids' table or the uncool kids' table. There are no varsity jackets on sale anywhere. But people are certainly acting like this is the case.
Everybody has a way of dealing with their illness. Some people never talk about it. Some people find release in talking about it. Some people cannot get out of bed because of their depression. Some people deal with their depression through gritted teeth and fake smiles while carrying about with "normal" activities. Some people's anxiety stops them from leaving their room. Some people are ostensibly very social, but terrified all the while. So on. So forth.
No way of dealing with it is more legitimate than the other. This isn't the Mental Illness Olympics. It sucks for everybody.
Has anybody considered that it may be prevalent on social media because that's how people connect with new mindsets? Yes, there are a lot of people on tumblr who talk about having mental illness. Yes, it's almost certain there are a few illegitimate cases among the bunch. But I'm adamant that's a majority. The fact of the matter is that tumblr creates an environment where we can access groups of people we couldn't find in real life.
Looking back, I've been dealing with clinical depression since seventh grade at the latest-- I'm a high school senior now-- but I didn't even think to associate the word with my situation until tenth grade, my second year on tumblr, when I saw other people talking about it. Before then, I'd only heard the word on those "weird" television commercials for antidepressants and as a subject of ridicule among my peers and even adult figures. I live in a place replete with a culture that writes off the very idea of depression.
It wasn't until tumblr introduced me to the idea of depression as a real thing that I realized that was what I was dealing with. And even then, it took another two years of talking to people on tumblr before I sought help, got a diagnosis, and got help. But my depression was no less real when I was dealing with it in seventh grade, or when I was blogging about it on tumblr, or when I didn't have that diagnosis to allow me medication.
Talking about my depression on tumblr wasn't a ploy to receive attention-- I despise attention because of my social anxiety-- but rather a means of working through one of the darkest aspects of my life with people who would not reject me for it. And I don't know where I would be right now without that help.
So maybe it's shocking to see people talk about mental illness so candidly online in the culture of silence we live in. And it's certainly easy to write it off as them seeking attention because it takes less effort to do so than to try to empathize. But as long as we're this vicious about people talking about something so difficult, we're going to perpetuate that culture of silence.
Mental illness should not be romanticized. Of course not. But it needs to be normalized on a societal level. When we discourage people from talking about it, we're playing into the same evils that enforce silence, conflate any mention of social illness with whining or attention-seeking, and make people feel worthless at best. And that's the same culture that worsens sufferers' conditions and, at its most extreme, leads to full-scale tragedies like school shootings, suicides, and the like.
You are not the patron saint of sufferers. You are not the gatekeeper of mental illness. Nobody is.
Mental illness is not a Club 33. It's not the cool kids' table or the uncool kids' table. There are no varsity jackets on sale anywhere. But people are certainly acting like this is the case.
Everybody has a way of dealing with their illness. Some people never talk about it. Some people find release in talking about it. Some people cannot get out of bed because of their depression. Some people deal with their depression through gritted teeth and fake smiles while carrying about with "normal" activities. Some people's anxiety stops them from leaving their room. Some people are ostensibly very social, but terrified all the while. So on. So forth.
No way of dealing with it is more legitimate than the other. This isn't the Mental Illness Olympics. It sucks for everybody.
Has anybody considered that it may be prevalent on social media because that's how people connect with new mindsets? Yes, there are a lot of people on tumblr who talk about having mental illness. Yes, it's almost certain there are a few illegitimate cases among the bunch. But I'm adamant that's a majority. The fact of the matter is that tumblr creates an environment where we can access groups of people we couldn't find in real life.
Looking back, I've been dealing with clinical depression since seventh grade at the latest-- I'm a high school senior now-- but I didn't even think to associate the word with my situation until tenth grade, my second year on tumblr, when I saw other people talking about it. Before then, I'd only heard the word on those "weird" television commercials for antidepressants and as a subject of ridicule among my peers and even adult figures. I live in a place replete with a culture that writes off the very idea of depression.
It wasn't until tumblr introduced me to the idea of depression as a real thing that I realized that was what I was dealing with. And even then, it took another two years of talking to people on tumblr before I sought help, got a diagnosis, and got help. But my depression was no less real when I was dealing with it in seventh grade, or when I was blogging about it on tumblr, or when I didn't have that diagnosis to allow me medication.
Talking about my depression on tumblr wasn't a ploy to receive attention-- I despise attention because of my social anxiety-- but rather a means of working through one of the darkest aspects of my life with people who would not reject me for it. And I don't know where I would be right now without that help.
So maybe it's shocking to see people talk about mental illness so candidly online in the culture of silence we live in. And it's certainly easy to write it off as them seeking attention because it takes less effort to do so than to try to empathize. But as long as we're this vicious about people talking about something so difficult, we're going to perpetuate that culture of silence.
Mental illness should not be romanticized. Of course not. But it needs to be normalized on a societal level. When we discourage people from talking about it, we're playing into the same evils that enforce silence, conflate any mention of social illness with whining or attention-seeking, and make people feel worthless at best. And that's the same culture that worsens sufferers' conditions and, at its most extreme, leads to full-scale tragedies like school shootings, suicides, and the like.
You are not the patron saint of sufferers. You are not the gatekeeper of mental illness. Nobody is.
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I think you totally misunderstood the point of this thread. No one is trying to say everyone should shut up about it go back to being ashamed. By all means, talk about it..get the info. out there. However, when you got people like Grav3yardgirl and other youtubers trying to make it seem like it's a walk in the park and uses it as a guilt attention seeker, you gotta call out bs what is bs. There are so many youtubers lately going "ya, i got PPD depression..i got over it in like 2 weeks (stylediet)" those are the types of youtubers we are talking about. No one is making this a pissing contest of who is holier than thou in the mental illness department but when you got people on youtube self diagnosing themselves, it makes the rest of us with it for real look like attention seekers. THAT'S the point of this thread.lovegood wrote: Mental illness should not be romanticized. Of course not. But it needs to be normalized on a societal level. When we discourage people from talking about it, we're playing into the same evils that enforce silence, conflate any mention of social illness with whining or attention-seeking, and make people feel worthless at best. And that's the same culture that worsens sufferers' conditions and, at its most extreme, leads to full-scale tragedies like school shootings, suicides, and the like.
You are not the patron saint of sufferers. You are not the gatekeeper of mental illness. Nobody is.
To those who actually suffer from it, talk about it as much as you want. That's what the internet is for, to reach out. But we're referring to the ones who literally do it for attention such as confusing being sad for depressed, being a loner as anxiety, watching harry potter makes you a geek. Those types of people....
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Hey hey now. Damon Fizzy (or deefizzy/dfizzy) is actually quite genuine. Yes, he's been known to take pictures of himself at times, and talks about his anxiety a lot sometimes, that by no means means he's "faking it." He quite clearly has anxiety. I just think some of you guys need to stop seeing everything some YouTubers do as a "scam." A person with social anxiety might feel much more comfortable and like "themself" in front of a camera, alone n their bedroom, or with a friend, then looking someone they don't know very well directly in the eyes. It's not that far fetched. And saying "they shouldn't talk about it to the world, to 'vulnerable' fans" or whatever, like some of you have implied, is a horrible thing to say. There needs to be some sort of platform for them to talk about it to people who care/can give them suggestions, even if it is a rather public platform.
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Charlie is 100% genuine.
If you've heard the stories about him at vidcon.... I just feel so bad for him!
If you've heard the stories about him at vidcon.... I just feel so bad for him!
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Oh Damon Fizzy? The guy who tweets saying he's tired of companies offering him sponsorships and he hates the business side of Youtube. But then he applies to take part in the Ford Fiesta Movement which is just one big corporate sponsorship. I think it's extremely hypocritical to talk shit about the thing that made you, say you hate the business side of if and then jump on one of Youtubes biggest corporate sponsorships on Youtube. There's nothing wrong with sponsorships and but I find it annoying when people talk crap about something or say they are against something and then change their views the second it becomes convenient to them. I don't hate the guy. Just calling him out on some BSiwasandamacontra wrote:Hey hey now. Damon Fizzy (or deefizzy/dfizzy) is actually quite genuine. Yes, he's been known to take pictures of himself at times, and talks about his anxiety a lot sometimes, that by no means means he's "faking it." He quite clearly has anxiety. I just think some of you guys need to stop seeing everything some YouTubers do as a "scam." A person with social anxiety might feel much more comfortable and like "themself" in front of a camera, alone n their bedroom, or with a friend, then looking someone they don't know very well directly in the eyes. It's not that far fetched. And saying "they shouldn't talk about it to the world, to 'vulnerable' fans" or whatever, like some of you have implied, is a horrible thing to say. There needs to be some sort of platform for them to talk about it to people who care/can give them suggestions, even if it is a rather public platform.
And yes, this thread addresses people who fake their anxiety, nerdiness, depression, etc. Mental illnesses and conditions are very real. This bothers me because I am actually diagnosed with clinical depression and social anxiety. When you have people constantly saying they have those things (self diagnosed) and think that they have depression just because they sometimes get sad or feel anxious. And they make videos saying "How to get over depression." That makes a mockery of what people who actually have it have to live with every day. It's not something you just get over. This is an awful trend and it needs to stop. Not only is it insulting but it's very damaging
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Feeling anxious and having anxiety need to be clearly distinguished. The same goes foe feeling depressed and actually having depression.
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Exactly! Everyone gets depressed sometimes and everyone feels anxious. Just because you sometimes have those feelings, doesn't mean you are clinically diagnosed with the disorder. I'm tired of these words being casually thrown around so often that they lose all meaningtrslul wrote:Feeling anxious and having anxiety need to be clearly distinguished. The same goes foe feeling depressed and actually having depression.
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I am UP TO MY FUCKING EYEBALLS WITH THIS MENTAL ILLNESS TREND
It is NOT fun suffering with mental illness. I've watched 3 close relatives live torturous agonising lives due to various disorders. Myself, house bound.
I began watching youtubers and vlogs because I liked to watch other people's lives because mine is so shit.
Now all I'm seeing is people undermining mental health sufferers.
They can all fuck off
I'm 100% sure anxiety will kill me one day. I'm sick of people acting as if it's a walk in the park.
The worst is when they say they have social anxiety disorder because they're shy. Or because they blush sometimes.
GET OUT
Rant over.
It is NOT fun suffering with mental illness. I've watched 3 close relatives live torturous agonising lives due to various disorders. Myself, house bound.
I began watching youtubers and vlogs because I liked to watch other people's lives because mine is so shit.
Now all I'm seeing is people undermining mental health sufferers.
They can all fuck off
I'm 100% sure anxiety will kill me one day. I'm sick of people acting as if it's a walk in the park.
The worst is when they say they have social anxiety disorder because they're shy. Or because they blush sometimes.
GET OUT
Rant over.
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Exactly I know someone who actually has social anxiety and there is no way they would be able to get on stage in front of thousands of people or do massive meet ups.Leighxxx wrote:I am UP TO MY FUCKING EYEBALLS WITH THIS MENTAL ILLNESS TREND
It is NOT fun suffering with mental illness. I've watched 3 close relatives live torturous agonising lives due to various disorders. Myself, house bound.
I began watching youtubers and vlogs because I liked to watch other people's lives because mine is so shit.
Now all I'm seeing is people undermining mental health sufferers.
They can all fuck off
I'm 100% sure anxiety will kill me one day. I'm sick of people acting as if it's a walk in the park.
The worst is when they say they have social anxiety disorder because they're shy. Or because they blush sometimes.
GET OUT
Rant over.
I love how they make out that because they feel a bit panicked during meet ups they have anxiety. I'm pretty sure most people would feel a little flustered if they were being crowded by hundreds of screaming girls. Doesn't mean they have anxiety though.
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Omg I hate when people say they're awkward! Like no, you have tons of friends and can actually carry on a conversation.
Me on the other hand, if I'm in a group of people and they're leaving one by one, I leave before the second to last person cause I don't want to have to talk to them alone because I never have anything to talk about and I just can't carry on a conversation.
I also don't have many friends. I have a few but the ones I do have, I always feel left out cause I'm not out there like them. I can't act crazy an wild and do stupid stuff for laughs. I just feel uncomfortable and awkward. I'd rather just have funny conversations with people.
Me on the other hand, if I'm in a group of people and they're leaving one by one, I leave before the second to last person cause I don't want to have to talk to them alone because I never have anything to talk about and I just can't carry on a conversation.
I also don't have many friends. I have a few but the ones I do have, I always feel left out cause I'm not out there like them. I can't act crazy an wild and do stupid stuff for laughs. I just feel uncomfortable and awkward. I'd rather just have funny conversations with people.
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I agree with what most people in here have been saying. I think another thing that kind of ties in with all this, is the way that a lot of fans go on about how certain YouTubers "saved" them. I get that YT can help people when they're going through a difficult time, but I feel like every other comment these days is just "I LOVE YOU, YOU SAVED MY LIFE, YOU'RE THERE FOR ME WHEN NO ONE ELSE IS, BLAHBLAHBLAH". Fangirls see other fangirls saying it, and it just becomes a competition to see who is more psychotically devoted and dependent on a YTer's videos. And now you can't go through any YouTuber's Tumblr tag / tweet mentions / video comments without seeing exaggerated praise. It makes me sick to think about how many girls call Onision "inspirational". No wonder so many YouTubers have inflated egos.
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not a fan of gatekeeping who gets to call themselves a nerd and who doesn't, but as someone who's been watching ASMR content for almost 10 years i've noticed the female ASMRtists who also work on OF and stream on Twitch all into the "faking nerdiness for the boys" category
usually pretend to be into video games
i grew up with strict parents and never played a video game in my life but something tells me some of these girls don't really play
or maybe i'm just jealous they get male attention
usually pretend to be into video games
i grew up with strict parents and never played a video game in my life but something tells me some of these girls don't really play
or maybe i'm just jealous they get male attention
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Thank you for bringing this up. I have been noticing this is some of the communities I watch.... (I watch a lot of book content) and with the sudden rise of ADHD getting diagnosed, I am finding it trickling into their content all of a sudden.
Im not saying that these people DON'T have ADHD.... they very well could. I have it, and i was diagnosed when I was older, but I also realize that I shouldn't say "It's my ADHD" whenever I cant pay attention or get something done because literally NO ONE CARES.... Also, before I was diagnosed I never used that excuse... i just worked hard and tried my best. I'm finding that with a lot of these youtubers its a self fulfilling prophecy and the diagnosis is almost hurting them more than its helping them. All of a sudden they cant film videos because of ADHD, they cant read books because of ADHD, they cant edit because ADHD, they cant organize their filming calendar because ADHD... and im like, huh? you literally filmed consistently for 5 years and never had any of the issues that you are claiming are SO debilitating now. Its like once they know they have it, they become obsessed with how the diagnosis is affecting their lives... and it becomes this excuse, and an easy way to get out of doing shit they dont want to do. Im not trying to stigmatize it.. or claim that these people dont have it... but im so tired of people constantly using it as a way to explain away their actions. NO ONE CARES that you have ADHD... literally no one, stop saying it. If you cant get your job done, then go to the psych, work on yourself,get some medication and stop talking about it.
Im not saying that these people DON'T have ADHD.... they very well could. I have it, and i was diagnosed when I was older, but I also realize that I shouldn't say "It's my ADHD" whenever I cant pay attention or get something done because literally NO ONE CARES.... Also, before I was diagnosed I never used that excuse... i just worked hard and tried my best. I'm finding that with a lot of these youtubers its a self fulfilling prophecy and the diagnosis is almost hurting them more than its helping them. All of a sudden they cant film videos because of ADHD, they cant read books because of ADHD, they cant edit because ADHD, they cant organize their filming calendar because ADHD... and im like, huh? you literally filmed consistently for 5 years and never had any of the issues that you are claiming are SO debilitating now. Its like once they know they have it, they become obsessed with how the diagnosis is affecting their lives... and it becomes this excuse, and an easy way to get out of doing shit they dont want to do. Im not trying to stigmatize it.. or claim that these people dont have it... but im so tired of people constantly using it as a way to explain away their actions. NO ONE CARES that you have ADHD... literally no one, stop saying it. If you cant get your job done, then go to the psych, work on yourself,get some medication and stop talking about it.