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Because it was wildly under diagnosed in many places until recently, and if you weren’t a white boy you were a lot less likely to be correctly diagnosed.
I thought the consensus was that it was wildly OVER diagnosed in the late 90s to make kids shut up in school
edit: Oh lmao I just realized was sublemmy I'm in
That was the pop culture take on it, that doesn’t mean that’s what the evidence shows.
How exactly would your answer be different if you'd realised where you were?
My answer wouldn't have changed, I just would've realized why I'm getting the same response over and over lol
This is probably because you are stating your subjective opinion in a rude & condescending way, instead of providing any peer-reviewed data to back up your claims.
tl;dr/succinct version - you are full of shit
I don't think anything I said was rude just because you disagree with it
If we look at the timeline of ADHD research, we can see that there was a lot studies about it in the 80s, and even more in 90s, so it kinda makes sense that there would be more ADHD detected in the population when the general understanding of it improved.
Also DSM IV was published in 94, and refined the diagnostic criteria for ADHD https://www.cdc.gov/adhd/media/pdfs/ADHDTimeline.pdf