ADHD diagnoses are rising. 1 in 9 U.S. kids have gotten one, new study finds
ADHD diagnoses are rising. 1 in 9 U.S. kids have gotten one, new study finds
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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.
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.
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.