Overdiagnosis is not a problem, but misdiagnosis may be as people are driven into the private sector by long waits, and sadly, missed diagnoses remain common —Tamsin Ford
Experts are warning that far from being over-diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.
The moral panic of overdiagnosis comes from conservatism’s obsession with hypernormalcy. Basically unless your really-really failed to be normal, you’re not allowed to stray from it, and even then, it would be good if you were normal, because they like the virtue of normalcy, and also thinking is hard, and also also change is bad.
Yes this explains modern transphobia a lot. Some admitted, that it has to be “all undone”, because people stopped trying to be normal first and foremost. This also partly explains gatekeeping in fandoms.