Force each DEA agent to live with unmedicated ADHDers in a small apartment for a month


Force each DEA agent to live with unmedicated ADHDers in a small apartment for a month
The Issue
The Drug Enforcement Administration is keeping pharmacies from stocking Adderall, a life-improving drug for a significant portion of Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Students and Employees alike are suffering due to a lack of a drug that helps us to do things that other people supposedly find simple, but that we find incredibly difficult. The people making this decision are not doctors.
They need to experience firsthand what dealing with unmedicated ADHD is like. Since inducing ADHD in individuals is thus far scientifically impossible (and likely medically unethical) and Neurotypical/Able-Bodied people in power don't make changes that benefit Neurodivergent/Disabled people unless they're inconvenienced by us in some way, I propose we make our problem, their problem.
Each DEA agent gets to live with at least one, and up to four, volunteers with ADHD, for a month. With no escape.
Let them listen to the constant clicking of a pen for eight hours. The same song on repeat for three days straight. A detailed explanation of every cutie mark ever given to a My Little Pony.
Have them deal with a steadily-growing pile of dishes as each of their housemates promises that they'll "get to it as soon as they're done with this thing" that they never finish with because they've gone off to do something else.
Make them sit through an entire movie series while three different people are talking over the dialogue to excitedly explain trivia behind every scene. Make them wonder how nobody else in the house notices that the dust bunnies in the corner are multiplying like- well, like bunnies.
Teach them in the only way they'll learn. By annoying them until they're helping us to save their own sanity.
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The Issue
The Drug Enforcement Administration is keeping pharmacies from stocking Adderall, a life-improving drug for a significant portion of Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Students and Employees alike are suffering due to a lack of a drug that helps us to do things that other people supposedly find simple, but that we find incredibly difficult. The people making this decision are not doctors.
They need to experience firsthand what dealing with unmedicated ADHD is like. Since inducing ADHD in individuals is thus far scientifically impossible (and likely medically unethical) and Neurotypical/Able-Bodied people in power don't make changes that benefit Neurodivergent/Disabled people unless they're inconvenienced by us in some way, I propose we make our problem, their problem.
Each DEA agent gets to live with at least one, and up to four, volunteers with ADHD, for a month. With no escape.
Let them listen to the constant clicking of a pen for eight hours. The same song on repeat for three days straight. A detailed explanation of every cutie mark ever given to a My Little Pony.
Have them deal with a steadily-growing pile of dishes as each of their housemates promises that they'll "get to it as soon as they're done with this thing" that they never finish with because they've gone off to do something else.
Make them sit through an entire movie series while three different people are talking over the dialogue to excitedly explain trivia behind every scene. Make them wonder how nobody else in the house notices that the dust bunnies in the corner are multiplying like- well, like bunnies.
Teach them in the only way they'll learn. By annoying them until they're helping us to save their own sanity.
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Supporter Voices
Petition created on March 22, 2023