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Toward Neurodiversity-Affirming Language for ADHD

2025-11-14

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<p>Language shapes how ADHD is understood and how society treats people with ADHD. Conceptualisation as a disorder underpins the deficit-based, medicalised framing of ADHD that dominates clinical, research, and public discourse, contributing to stigma and limiting how people with ADHD can understand their own experiences. Our perspective piece examines power dynamics in language use and the material consequences o...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/gucym_v1

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