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# The Parenting Excuse of ADHD
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-parenting-excuse-of-adhd/
- Published: 2025-08-01T19:30:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-01T19:30:55.000Z
- Description: Best of MountainsideFM.
- Author: MountainsideFM
- Tags: Podcasts, NZ Politics

More and more mothers, it seems, enjoy joining the hordes of other parents in what they believe is an enlightened group of woke participants. A modern social phenomenon that’s particularly evident among a certain subset of middle-class, university-educated mothers who joyfully follow the ADHD, misguided, idiotic and neurotic beliefs and attitudes.

In many communities, especially in urban or higher-decile areas of New Zealand, **ADHD and other conditions** (autism, sensory processing disorder, anxiety, etc) are no longer seen with concern, but with a kind of *status glow*. For some, it’s become:

> **“My child is neurodivergent, and I’m part of a conscious, supportive community that challenges old systems.”**

This has turned into a type of *social club*, often driven by online forums, parenting groups and social media echo chambers. 

The parenting excuse of ADHD

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