Do the japs have any concept of ADHD or do they just think "I knew someone weird like this once" when writing these sorts of characters

For me its kaorin x sakaki. Their dynamic is super cute and I think they'd make a good couple.

>>280583405 (OP)
Sunohara-sou, I guess? IDK shit about the mentally ill but looked like a pretty accurate depiction of autism to me

>>280583405 (OP)
Nah they just think it's cute when girls are spacey or hyperactive.

>>280583471
Kaorin doesn't love Sakaki, she loves the person she assumes Sakaki to be. Never once does she try to learn who she really is and what she likes, Kaorin just fawns over a person who exists exclusively in her own head.

If Kaorin ever found out that Sakaki is a big softie who likes animals and cute girl things Kaorin would be crushed and lose interest in an instant.

>>280583405 (OP)
Tomo best

>>280583497
>Hyperactive
>Spaces out when nothing's going on
>Zero impulse control
>Does zero schoolwork
>Aces important exams
>Burns all her energy at once rather than making a sustained, concentrated effort
>Consideration for other's feelings/what's socially acceptable never enters her head
Sounds like genuine ADHD to me

>>280583405 (OP)
There is a panel explaining ADHD, autism and other conditions in the community center here

>>280583405 (OP)
>Do the japs have any concept of ADHD
They know it exists and its usually beaten/disciplined out of kids around Junior Highschool age once the crushing reality of societal expectations and social hierarchy becomes their reality.
Eventually they dont have time to be ADHD when they're doing 部活 6-7 days a week for 3-8 hours a day.

>>280584514
No wonder they've got a suicide problem

They're fully-aware of neurodivergent traits, but I really doubt any of those were in mind when Azumanga Daioh was written. As "autism-coded" or "ADHD-coded" the Azumanga cast is, that's something applied to them after-the-fact by fans. Osaka can just as easily be interpreted as airheaded and odd, or Tomo can just as easily be read as energetic and brazen, without AUDHD trauts being read-in. If anything, in fact, part of Azumanga Daioh's charm is that the interactions between characters straddle the line between dumb and mundane juuust~ enough to seem like conversations between real high-schoolers. People talk about dumb shit or utter nonsense all the time just to chat. Azumanga probably wouldn't come across as "gee, how relatable" if Kiyohiko Azuma were purposefully writing the cast as the autism spectrum incarnate.

>>280584514
>>280585557
Curiously I think this kind of stuff people say online is American propaganda. USA already work more hours on average than Japan and while Japan and the world are reducing their suicide rates USA is increasing and already passed Japan so they need to push the idea that other countries are much worse than them to keep Americans tame.

>>280583405 (OP)
ADHD is a made-up 21st century "illness".

>>280583471
Kaorin is exclusively for Kimura sensei.

>>280585708
>neurodivergent traits

Stop using bullshit invented words made to generate a narrative. Its mental illness.

>>280587175
I have a more cynical explanation of Japan's falling suicide rates but I hope I'm wrong and it really is things getting better.

>>280583405 (OP)
In the current DSM, ADD was merged into ADHD because they found that even if people with ADD don't exhibit external hyperactive behaviors, their brains are just as active as people with ADHD. Or something like that.

>>280588512
This image is older than most of the users on this website.

>>280583405 (OP)
They didn't want their characters to be boring. Azumanga would have sucked if you didn't have these two as foils to the others.

>>280588139
>Its mental illness
yeah well I'm a neuroinsurgent and I'm coming to fuck your brains up

>>280583405 (OP)
none of them have ADHD and specially not Tomo

>>280588385
Based retard

>>280588385
So while suicide rates is declining for most of the world Japan included USA have been selective breeding people with suicidal tendencies to create a race with superior suicide rates? Amazing! AMERICA #1!!!!

>>280583779
Tomo is second to Kagura

>>280588139
Claiming a term you don't understand is the same as another term you don't understand is also pushing a retarded narrative, fag.

>>280583405 (OP)
Westerners barely had a concept of ADHD during the time Azumanga came out so I doubt the japs did.

>>280587175
Liberals believe only liberalism works and every other system is evil and corrupt, and every country who employs them should ideally be destroyed, occupied and made to accept liberalism by force.
Japan can't be a protectionist, monoethnic, monocultural prosperous society, so the moral American slanders it in two ways
>it's actually a secret comically evil dystopia/dictatorship
>it's actually not prosperous (muh birthrates!) and it will collapse in 10 years because they don't do what we do
Same as Russia, China, North Korea, every nation who exists outside the western model gets this treatment, and evidence to the contrary gets dismissed as enemy propaganda.
Allied nations who are demonstrably doing horribly under liberalism aren't even brought up (South Korea) because liberalism is infallible, period.

>>280583405 (OP)
>99% of gag manga authors: "It's funny if the characters are wacky, it won't be interesting they behave like normal people"
>Redditors: "This character acts strange that means he has autism and ADD just like me!"

>>280593255
I think people in the otaku culture are more likely to be on the spectrum or have other development conditions, this includes fans but also mangaka, animators, vtubers, etc. There is a manga with stories about people like that https://www.takeshobo.co.jp/book/b10052671.html

>>280584514
>its usually beaten/disciplined out of kids
>they dont have time to be ADHD
That's not how it works.

>>280597063
But that's what happens.

>>280583471
Sakaki is for kagura. Kaorin will drop sakaki when realizing who her father is

>>280583595
This. I'm a yurifag. Good pairings are stuff like tomo / chiyo. Kaorin and sakaki can fuck off.
Also Sex with Rachel handlebarz

test

>>280597063
nah dude you don't get it, some guy on a basket weaving forum told me that observable differences in brain structure and chemistry aren't real

>>280597212
>tomo / chiyo
do you want chiyo to die?

>>280584514
>beaten/disciplined out of kids

>>280583405 (OP)
imagine if Tomo had H-cups

>>280598993
downgrade

>>280583405 (OP)
>Do the japs have any concept of ADHD

Why do you guys always assume these are conditions the nation as a whole has never heard of just because one or two writers didn't realize they were writing characters relatable to people with those conditions?

>>280598629
Safest country in the world by the way

>>280599352
They're just doing the meth to stay awake for their 48 hours shift at the office.

>>280583405 (OP)
Japan doesn't believe in ADD, ADHD, depression or anxiety etc.
Just turn off brain and work is their mindset, anything else and you are sick or lazy.

ADD is hyperactive in their mind too, they're just more lowkey about it in external behaviour

ADD is hyperactive in their mind too, they're just more lowkey about it in presentation.

>>280583595
>Kaorin likes cool things
>Sakaki is cool
>Sakaki likes cute things
>Kaorin is cute
They're literally made for eachother