The headline seems to be a bit misleading.
The tests were done during the pandemic where more kids were being tested for other things like depression and anxiety… and then those doctors were also testing some of them for ADHD.
More testing = more cases. Would be nice to know if it’s actually increasing and what the cause might be.
I want to say (cuz I’ve said it a million times) that it can seem like occurrences are going up when really, people like me never got help. I didn’t get diagnosed until I was 34 and that was while getting treatment for depression!
There’s a lot more cases like mine than we know about, so even if we are only catching up to the “normal” number of neurologically atypical people, it’s going to seem like we are gaining more cases.
“It’s those damned video games!”
- Ignorant Boomers probably
Can’t be those constant, ever present advertisements telling you to be insecure about how you don’t have their products.
Idk what you’re talking about…but I would if I paid for a subscription on Duolingo!
The “cause” is quite simple: more visibility, knowledge regarding, and acceptance of neurodiversity.
We don’t (usually) just beat kids until they learn to mask now.
Yes we are testing more now that we better understand the conditions. It used to be “understood” that it was mostly boys who had ADHD. Now we understand that girls are/were taught to act in certain ways, forcing them to learn to mask more effectively.
My spouse and I were both diagnosed with ADHD in our late 30s despite having visible symptoms as children.
When I told my parents I was diagnosed with ADHD, their response was “well you turned out fine, didn’t you?”
My employer acknowledges neurodiversity month with presentations by employees who are neurodiverse to help share their perspectives with the “normies.”
My spouse and I are able to look at our children’s behaviors and see the actions through the lense of their being ADHDers. We are able to look back actions and responses of our parents while we were growing up and see their undiagnosed ADHD.
In short, things like ADHD and Autism have been around a lot, in numbers higher than we used to diagnose, and were just getting better at spotting them.
Would be nice to know if it’s actually increasing and what the cause might be.
My first guess would be microplastics.
Or PFOS/PFAS chemicals, air pollution levels, etc etc. Big business has done a lot of damage to us over the years.
The “cause” is quite simple: more visibility, knowledge regarding, and acceptance of neurodiversity.
We don’t (usually) just beat kids until they learn to mask now.
Yes we are testing more now that we better understand the conditions. It used to be “understood” that it was mostly boys who had ADHD. Now we understand that girls are/were taught to act in certain ways, forcing them to learn to mask more effectively.
My spouse and I were both diagnosed with ADHD in our late 30s despite having visible symptoms as children.
When I told my parents I was diagnosed with ADHD, their response was “well you turned out fine, didn’t you?”
My employer acknowledges neurodiversity month with presentations by employees who are neurodiverse to help share their perspectives with the “normies.”
My spouse and I are able to look at our children’s behaviors and see the actions through the lense of their being ADHDers. We are able to look back actions and responses of our parents while we were growing up and see their undiagnosed ADHD.
In short, things like ADHD and Autism have been around a lot, in numbers higher than we used to diagnose, and were just getting better at spotting them.
Thanks for clarifying it.
One of the top ADHD docs/researchers basically said that ADHD is associated with older parents having having kids - that age means there’s more likelihood of the parents’ DNA having defects in egg and sperm, and that means more ADHD. Same with likelihood of Autism, which has a link to paternal age.
And, of course, it’s not that there are more people with ADHD (though that’s true to an extent), it’s just that they were never diagnosed in the first place.
How many parents and teachers have been diagnosed with intolerant normie disorder?
Well they need to quit it. My meds are unaffordable enough due to high demand. I am of course kidding but seriously, sick of meds either not being available due to shortages or just expensive af.
they need DRUGS
I fucking wish I had been medicated as a kid. Fuck
The world is a much better place if you don’t whip yourself into a frenzy at every opportunity - at least, that’s what you yourself said 🤷♂️
I’ve had this vague idea for some time now that you could map metal states to a (N-dimensional) Cartesian plane, and set “normal” as the origin. Since no one is directly on the origin, everyone could be defined by a magnitude and an angle. Everyone in a certain “direction” could be mapped as ADHD, but their magnitude could vary. More testing would reveal more people closer to the origin - and infinite testing could diagnose every person with something.
I wonder what the polar opposite of ADHD is?
The opposite is no ADHD.
Each condition is independent of the others.
Their are a lot of correlation between diagnoses. I was thinking about those basic diagnostic tests that have “Strong disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, and strongly agree.” If a certain set of responses gets you “probable ADHD”, what would the opposite responses get you?
As someone in healthcare, they’ll fit right in. I’m pretty sure the medical field would just collapse overnight without undiagnosed ADHD peeps.
The schools would absolutely collapse without the students who are diagnosed, and sell their extra meds to the others.
