reduce ambiguous PIP payments for hidden disabilities that can’t be properly proven. Why does ADHD need paying for?
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
You have also used the phrase mild ADHD.
There's genuinely nothing mild about ADHD except how you as an outside perceive it.
ADHD causes crippling executive dysfunction issues.
This is issues with planning and organising, starting tasks, finishing tasks, following up on tasks, short term memory, impulsively, rigid thinking, poor self monitoring, emotional regulation issues, issues with goal orientated tasks, time blindness, and issues prioritising tasks.
Everyone might have issues with this from time to time, but those of us with ADHD will suffer with this every day of our lives.
We will forget to do tasks, forget to turn the cooker off, forget to follow up texts with friends and relationships, forget to respond to important emails, forget about bills, forget about meetings we are supposed to have, double book and then persistently have to cancel or forget to cancel whichever appointment lapses, etc.
To an outsider, looking at someone who has support to do these things it might look "mild" or like there's no evidence of disability but throw that same person in a different environment like work or school or college and the amount of effort that person has to put in is significantly higher than their peers until they reach burnout and they get anxious and depressed and the mental health crises start and there is no support.
Our needs fluctuate.
That's why payments are needed. Because we deserve support.
We aren't forgetting to close windows and letting all the heat out at night because we're lazy, ultimately costing more in heating. We aren't forgetting about food we've already bought because we can't see it and we're lazy, costing more in food. We aren't forgetting what time the bus comes because we're lazy, costing us more in taxis.
We are disabled.
And what you have said is incredibly ableist.