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by Swordfish12345 1024 days ago
> people with ADHD...because their brains don't work like this.

You might be surprised to find out that there is actually no proof of this.

The biggest thing impacting people with ADHD symptoms is the diagnosis. It implies they have a brain disorder, and cuts short any exploration into environmental causes of their symptoms.

And an environmental cause may in fact be, simply not trying some simple advice from this article. Resolved by education.
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Barrin92 1024 days ago
I would be very surprised because that's complete nonsense. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder with changes in both neurochemistry and structural development of the brain [1]. This is why drugs like Adderall are highly effective in treating the symptoms of ADHD. You cannot cure disorders of the brain by reading blogs on the internet, and it is this kind of ignorance that has given people with neurological issues a lot of grief and shame in the past.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894421/

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Swordfish12345 1024 days ago
> _Emerging_ Neurobiology

They key point is "emerging".

You will find a lot of research, but there are no meta-analyses of brain imaging or gene studies showing any correlation to those diagnosed with ADHD. Even the diagnostic manual, the DSM-5, explicitly states that no biomarkers for diagnosis exist. The descriptive diagnostic criteria for ADHD were simply made up by a group of psychiatrists in the 1980s from their observations. So the definition of ADHD is entirely recursive.

So all we know is people have some basket of symptoms, and an impairment in their ability to live their life, but an entirely unknown cause.

You may also be surprised to find that there is no proof of the link between depression and serotonin either - which is the main theory for treatment.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0

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