@forwhatitsworth My psychiatrist is an asian woman and told me something like a lot of mental health diagnoses are measured against the behavior of white society, specifically cis white males. I can see the medical society in general is the same since in western society, I assume most docs were cis white males so a lot of studies etc revolve around them.
I was going in for depression and anxiety.
Prior to her, I went for ADHD, but because I did well in school, my last doctors disagreed I had it. After I got treatment for my ADHD both my depression and anxiety lessened, this entire time that was the cause but all these years doctors have told me it’s just depression and anxiety.
But of course I couldn’t have had ADHD because I did well in school. Well… it’s hard to not do well in school when you have the stereotypical Asian parents who accept nothing less than an A.