Pete Quily

Why Everything Is Getting Worse w/ Cory Doctorow | MR Live YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

About 24:20 Cory Doctrow starts to explain the point of enshittification & later says

“I don’t think they had the long-term forethought.

I think they’re too ketamine addled and ADHD to do this. ( plan the enshittification in advance).

ADDer stigmatizing ADHD:(

www.youtube.com/live/EQW6UxY...

I followed him off and on over the years

He usually has something worth listening to

this doesn’t sound like him

where in that 55 minute interview did he say that?

And the enshittification is due to greed… pure and simple

This stuff hurts. It makes me so angry. Your surgeons have ADHD. Your professors have ADHD. Your pilots have ADHD. Your uber drivers have ADHD. Your psychologists have ADHD. I’m so so tired of this ableist shit. Yeah, ADHD is tough, but it’s also very treatable. And it doesn’t make you a monster.

That’s strange

Cory Doctrow has ADHD

He told me so in Vancouver a decade or so ago at a conference at SFU.

There is a higher rate of entrepreneurs who have ADHD

I coached a lot of them.

Why is Cory stigmatizing people who have his mental health condition?

A game changer for the UK?

Allow doctors to diagnose ADHD as doctors in Canada in the US can & have done for decades ( but many don’t know ADHD esp. Can.)

I don’t think the UK doctors are dumber than ours

ADHD people in all countries should demand that all doctors have #MandatoryCMECoursesOnADHD

ADHD and Crime. 21% To 45% 0f Prisoners Have ADHD 15 Peer Reviewed Studies Show. Crime & Jail Are Costly, Treatment Is Cheap - Adult ADD Strengths People with ADHD have 4-9 times higher rates of being prisoners. Only 8% of kids & 5% of adults have ADHD. Cheaper to treat than imprison us

UK used to be more backwards in Canada on ADHD but now in some ways you’re more advanced

Just to have data on the waitlists

Having London & Cumbria police screening for ADHD

Huge rates of prisoners with ADHD

ADHD and Crime. 21% To 45% 0f Prisoners Have ADHD

adultaddstrengths.com/2011/01/12/a...

And as someone who started and ran the Vancouver Adult ADD Support group for 17 years and was on the board for Chadd Vancouver for the same time, it is very, very hard to get ADHD volunteers for advocacy work

CADDAC: Canadian ADHD Awareness | Education | Advocacy CADDAC: Canadian ADHD Awareness, Education, Advocacy

Not much. We have 2 national organizations like caddac.ca and caddra.ca

But ADHD support groups are very fragmented

Pretty well all are individual ADHD support groups.

No province wide ones

And you need those to be able to count the ADHD diagnosis waitlists

This is worrying news from Canada, what is being done to support those with #ADHD? This is what #ADHDAwarenessMonth is all about, sharing the information that people need to help and support those with ADHD

Oh they sure do.

but the phones don’t cause ADD.

YouTube video by Concordia University School of Health Meet The Researcher: Joyce Lui, Assistant Prof in Psychology and ADHD Researcher

October is #ADHDAwarenessMonth - a great time to highlight the work of Dr Joyce Lui, Assistant Prof of #Psychology at @concordia.ca

#ADHD #ADHDAwareness #DisruptiveBehaviors #ConcordiaHealth #ConcordiaUniversity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXyd...

October is ADHD Awareness Month We are celebrating the Many Faces of ADHD

We are excited that it is ADHD Awareness Month! Take a look at what we have planned.

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#ADHD #ADHDawarenessmonth #themanyfacesofadhd

was on the ADDA (US based Attention Deficit Disorder Association) ADD Coaching Policy Committee along with ADD coaches Barbara Luther, Peggy Bonsee and Sherri Hall. The list below is a draft that the committee created on the benefits of ADHD coaching. There are more than 26 benefits of Adult ADHD coaching, but we thought that ADDers might not read through 3 pages of benefits:) 26 Benefits Of ADHD Coaching Realize Goals Reduce procrastination Support decision-making and prioritizing Expand perception of options Provide course correction Create ADD-appreciative accountability Celebrate successes Set up supportive environments for success Putting the pieces in place that lead to success Develop New Skills

Develop New Skills • Manage impulsivity and distractibility • Improve time and self-management • Personalize strategies and systems • Learn to set boundaries • Improve social and communication skills • Manage conflict confidently

ADHD Education • Learn about what ADHD is and is not • Appreciate your strengths and unique gifts • Discover personalized approaches • Draft a personalized owner's manual of your brain • Understand thecriteria for a successful strategy • Create a personal pattern of success

26 Benefits Of ADHD Coaching

Reduce procrastination

Support decision-making and prioritizing

Expand perception of options

Provide course correction

Create ADD-appreciative accountability

Set up supportive environments for success

addcoach4u.com/26-benefits-...
#ADHDAwarenessMonth

Title: Fitting In Excited blue triangle character approaches 4 orange circles, who laugh saying “Pffft” and “So annoying.” The blue triangle gets an idea, and pulls out a saw. She starts shaving the corners of herself off in an effort to look more like a circle. The mean orange circles laugh again, saying “What a loser, LOL” while the blue triangle looks sadly at all her corner pieces that read “loud,” “eager,” and “hyper.” A green square shows up, with bandages all over its corners, carrying a red envelope. They help the blue triangle to her feet. Green square proceeds to open the red envelope to reveal band-aids and re-attach the blue corners (starting with “loud”) to the triangle. Triangle is all put back together. A purple hexagon and pink parallelogram enter the scene, excited to be there and also donning bandages on their corners. Last frame: shapes standing together among a long line of same orange circles. The red envelope with bandages can be seen center stage.

"Why don't people like me?"

Growing up with undiagnosed ADHD, I struggled to keep friends. I always ended up being "too much" for people.

Too loud. Too weird. Too annoying.

But after all this time, I finally realized—I don’t have to make myself smaller to be worthy of love. ❤️‍🩹

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

Sadly, Canada is so backwards on ADHD & so ADHD Hostile that unlike the UK, no one is tracking how many are on the waitlist for an #ADHD assessment in Canada as a whole, or broken down by provinces as far as I know:)

#Discrimination

#cdnpoli #ADHDAwarenessMonth

@heathermcpherson.bsky.social

Our final ADHD Awareness Month post this week highlights the increase we have seen in referrals for assessment in the last 2 years.

Data from @england.nhs.uk (Digital)

#ADHDAware #UKSchools #UKTeaching #MentalHealth #ADHDAwarenessMonth #EduSkyUK

October is ADHD Awareness Month. Just over half a million people in the UK were on the waiting list for an ADHD assessment in March this year.

Data from @england.nhs.uk (Digital)

#ADHDAware #UKSchools #UKTeaching #MentalHealth #ADHDAwarenessMonth #EduSkyUK

There isn't suddenly more ADHD nowadays. We've just learned to recognise it better.

#ADHDAcceptanceMonth

ADHD and Substance Abuse. Blog Posts, Books and Articles ADHD ignored can turn Into self-medicating with substance abuse. Treating ADHD with ADHD meds reduces this risk. All rehabs should screen for ADHD

30% of Teenage Cannabis Users in Outpatient Study had ADHD

ADHD people have huge rates of substance use disorder 20 to 40%+

IF diagnosed & ADHD meds?

lower rates

And some studies are higher 55 and 77% of people addicted to crystal meth had ADHD 2 studies showed

addcoach4u.com/adhd-addicti...

I once read a statistic that like a wild majority of habitical cannabis users are self-medicating for ADHD and like I think people would be surprised just how many people have it.

I mean, can't forget as well, medical misogyny plays a HUGE role.

We were always here. 👋

using phones doesn’t make you adhd

Adhd is 80% genetic

People with ADHD have higher rates of addiction, whether it’s booze, drug cigarettes, or gambling or Internet addiction where other behavioural addictions

Critical thinking is not a MAGA (or RFK, Jr.) "skill set".

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Edmonton MP Heather McPherson enters NDP leadership race McPherson says the party needs to change how it talks to Canadians David Thurton · CBC News · Posted: Sep 28, 2025 2:55 PM PDT | Last Updated: September 28 A woman in a red top speaks NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson speaks in the foyer of the House of Commons, Monday, Sept.23, 2024 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press) Social Sharing X Email Reddit Show More Heather McPherson entered the NDP leadership race on Sunday afternoon, telling supporters that she intends to unite her party and lead them out of their worst federal election performance ever. McPherson is the second major name to publicly announce they're running after former leader Jagmeet Singh resigned following the April election results. Joining her is activist and well-known journalist Avi Lewis, who launched his campaign a little over a week ago. While McPherson may not have the same name recognition as Lewis, she assumes unofficial front runner status, as she is the only candidate who currently holds a seat in the House of Commons.

"We need to change," she said. "Not what we believe but how we talk about it and who we talk to." Early on in her speech, McPherson noted the party needs to be inspired again by the big ideas that drove successful NDP leaders like Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton, as opposed to "shrinking into some sort of purity test" and pushing people away.

"We need to stop pushing people away and we need to invite people in. We need to have more people at the table and we need to listen to them," she said, noting the key to building a winning campaign was in "communities, not in back rooms in Ottawa." She called for "more resources for the grassroots," saying the party needs to "invest in our members and trust our base again."

NDP MP who introduced #BillC229

An Act to establish a national framework respecting attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en...

@heathermcpherson.bsky.social

her son has ADHD, is running for NDP leadership

Endorsed by Rachel Notley

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli

We didn’t have enough medics to keep today resourced (though we ended up staying an extra hour!) so many of us have dispersed.

We’ll be back next Friday. Same time.

No protester has taken any violent action and yet ICE has deployed at least a dozen canisters of tear gas, detonated a flash bang in a man’s face, and now a sniper is shooting us with pepper balls.

Braids are a great way to keep your hair out of your face, especially when ICE teargasses you.

Also they don’t get caught in a respirator. 10/10 would recommend.