I was diagnosed with ADHD (ADD) in elementary school. Basically my entire family have ADHD or Autism or both. Diagnosed. Those who aren't diagnosed are mostly my parents age or older.

Just because something is trendy doesn't mean that the number of people with a legitimate mental illness or learning disability are any less prevalent. There's such a push to let people know these learning disabilities exist because so many people aren't diagnosed.

So what is your devils advocate stance here? That faking it harms people with the legitimate learning disabilities or mental illness?

That you just know by looking at people that they're faking it?

That giving people who say they need it more time and accomodations to complete assignments and tasks somehow harms us as a society?

Like.

You didn't even address what I asked. Which is, how do the people in the article making the claim quantify who is faking it? What is the metric they use to legitimize who has learning disabilities or mental illness?

Just giving anecdotal evidence from your own lived experience isn't a devils advocate argument in and of itself.

Take a fucking look around. People aren't faking it.