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than the U.S. However, as Marschall notes, that doesn’t mean a lower percentage of Finnish people have ADHD, but rather that the difference in statistics is a result of how ADHD is diagnosed.
“It’s not that their kids don’t have ADHD. It’s that their ADHD is not a ‘deficit,’” Marschall says. “That’s the medical model: If it’s not a deficit, then you don’t have it.” In fact, Marschall herself was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, but has also been assessed for autism. The only thing that differentiated her diagnosis, she says, was that “[she] didn’t struggle enough to be autistic.”
In short, because we only diagnose conditions when they hinder someone’s quality of life, the difference in diagnosis rates between the US and Finland can be attributed to the systems in which those diagnoses occur. When we make claims that the U.S. overdiagnoses ADHD or prescribes too many stimulant medications, we’re treating ADHD as a problem.
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