ZhenRen’s diary was beautiful and long — this one will be short.
I have ADD. It’s not really a problem, it is what it is. ZhenRen correctly pointed out that equating any of these “acronym” or “label” conditions with Trump’s condition or behavior was “ableism”; a form of prejudice just as pernicious and cruel as racism or sexism. Trump himself is a huge ableist.
You might think that someone talking the side of tolerance would be rewarded, but you would think wrong. Because the title of his diary sounded like an attack on the site, ZhenRen was given, and still has, an “NR” (no rec ability). Just today, another diary calling out sexist attacks on Daily Kos was temporarily HRed, also because the title sounded like it was attacking the site. Fortunately that mistake was quickly corrected.
That’s it. That’s all I have to say. Below is the opening to ZhenRen’s diary. Please rec this one if you agree with his.
Over 500 people on Daily Kos seem to think recommending a post that associates Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with having the mind of a three year old and, by virtue of associating this with Trump, indirectly linking it with racism, misogyny, bigotry and anti-immigrant nativism. In a diary characterizing the President-elect with a litany of various forms of mental illness, the diarist threw in a common neurological disorder as well, in a string of epithets designed to make Trump seem as if out of his mind. To quote the diary:
Look up the criteria for ADD as well and you have your man. He does not read about issues because he lacks the attention span. He speaks at a third grade level.