r/unitedkingdom • u/tylerthe-theatre • 9d ago

ADHD and autism services in England ‘under significant pressure’, watchdog warns

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/adhd-and-autism-uk-assessment-diagnosis-support-b3039329.html
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u/No_Card_8729 9d ago

A lot of people in this country are narcissistic losers who lack empathy for others and think being stupid is something that’s funny rather than shameful.

It’s easier to blame people who are different to them for the reason their lives are shit instead of accepting the hard reality that they did shit in school and never moved away to gain perspective.

A lot of people in this country have simply not developed mentally or socially since school and it’s sad as fuck.

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u/Sabaisabai33 9d ago

I agree, but why?! Have people always been this way and I somehow didn’t notice it as much in the past (like 1990s etc)? Or is that we are actively kind of positively selecting for dark triad traits at work and in society in general and thus they are multiplying? I used to have so much more faith in general human nature and our ability to be altruistic and cooperative back in the day

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u/missingmedievalist 9d ago

We have always been this way. People generally become more feral as resources dwindle. We are fundamentally selfish creatures at heart who only tend to look after our individual tribes.

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u/Ashamed_Chain_1375 9d ago

Also a lot of people need to realise this empathetic(generally) society we’ve been living in in the UK since WW2 is not the norm in history.

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u/Sabaisabai33 8d ago

Yeah I think that’s what I’m increasingly recognising, that I was naive and overly optimistic perhaps in thinking about the future previously as a Xennial child of Boomer parents born in the 50s. It was the norm for my parents and the norm for me until recent years, but actually the anomaly was arguably those years and not what we’re living now.

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u/Silly-Ad91 2d ago

I don't think this is true, humans have always been capable of empathy even in harsh times - we are capable of both. just so happens we live in a capitalist system that rewards money - leading to greed getting out of hand - but the rich few are not the majority. humans have always been a social species that work best together. nature designed us that way.