This is the correct answer and I feel it's very important to emphasize this point. You can have "symptoms" of whatever the fuck, but in order for it to be considered a disorder, it must disrupt your life in some way. I usually lean more into the camp of just trying to be supportive of people when they speak about mental health disorders, but there are definitely those kids out there self-diagnosing disorders like they're collecting pokemon. As someone who legitimately has been diagnosed with multiple disorders by actual licensed psychological professionals, it's aggravating to see those kids infantilize mental health in that capacity, where it perpetuates the already uphill battle for many of us to be taken seriously in the first place. ADHD has absolutely ruined my life and I would absolutely(in a hypothetical) take a relatively high chance of death at "curing" my ADHD without a single hesitation. Life is hard enough with all these fucking disorders, definitely don't need the added burden of always feeling like I have to prove that I really am that fucked up.
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