An excellent article in Quillette, on the strength of which I’ve just taken out a monthly subscription ($10, or $100 p.a.). An extract:

“Nowhere, perhaps, is this knowledge more unfortunate than in the offhand cataloging of the human psyche—the pathologising of everyday life and the rendering of armchair diagnoses. After all, it’s just a half-step from talking like shrinks to acting like them. An analyst quoted in Christopher Lane’s 2007 book Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness joked: “We used to have a word for sufferers of ADHD. We called them boys.” “

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