I sometimes watch a Twitch channel that broadcasts live Grand Sumo events. When there is no Grand Sumo tournament ongoing, the channel may broadcast stuff about Japanese culture, as well as some Pokemon gameplay.
Twitch supports channels having descriptive tags. Here are the tags for this particular channel:
One of those tags is not like the others, and sticks out like a sore thumb. And not just because it's the only tag written in all-caps.
The channel has literally nothing to do with any "ADHD" topics. Nothing. The streamer might mention briefly something about it if asked in the chat. That's literally the only situation where it gets mentioned.
So why exactly is that tag there? What purpose does it serve? It literally tells nothing about the channel and its contents.
And, as you might have guessed, the streamer exhibits absolutely no symptoms whatsoever about any kind of mental issues. Nothing. He speaks completely normally, commentates on the sumo events completely normally and without problems, responds to questions presented in the chat completely normally. In other words, he behaves completely normally, without showing any sign whatsoever about any sort of "ADHD".
He pretty much never talks about the subject, the subject in question is completely unrelated to anything that's shown in the stream, and he appears to be a completely normal intelligent person. So why exactly is the tag there?
I think it's quite clear that it's there just for virtue-signaling purposes. There's literally no other reason why it's there. It's for ego.
(In this particular case it makes it extra cringe that I really think that the entire concept of "ADHD" is complete bullshit. It's 100% pseudoscience. It's creating a "disease" out of a completely normal human characteristic that's not an actual problem, much less a medical one. It would be like, say, declaring that someone spending hours fishing because it's relaxing being some kind of medical issue. The entire thing is just bullshit.)
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