>For some even more others, they feel able with their medication and useless without. Luckily for them, their medication lasts all day, medication shortages do not exist, and their psychiatrist will always prescribe their medications forever.

The sarcasm there is unwarranted. Need for a treatment, when it exists, is orthogonal to its convenience. If you need an organ transplant to live, you need it regardless of whether you have donors and hospitals available or whether the lifelong meds they require can run dry at some point.

As for your larger point, to be clear, I understand the idea you’re trying to convey. Diagnoses can be limiting for some people either internally (limiting self perception) or by external judgement.

I don’t deny that, what I’m saying is that I feel you’re (probably unintentionally) falling into a different extreme that is just as damaging to others, which is to deny the need or convenience of treatment for those for which _there is no successful alternative_.

Shutting down a person through a label is harmful, dismissing their limitations because that would be labelling is harmful as well.

For the point of advice, advice can and will be harmful when it assumes realities that don’t apply to you.

To leave the analogy aside and give actual examples, methods to keep organization and accountability like checkboxes or diaries will not only be failed tries to those who need meds, but also reinforce a feeling of inadequacy as the user now feels lacking in discipline to commit to the method. Lack of self steem and negative self perception (lazy, messy, uncaring, etc) is a way too common comorbility with ADHD for a reason.