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The sudden rise of AuDHD: what is behind the rocketing rates of this life-changing diagnosis?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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Maybe because there’s an army of us born and raised before diagnosis was common, living undiagnosed, and thinking we’re just fuckwits or that we broke our brains when younger.
A combination of having to live with just themselves for company over lockdown, and finding au/adhd memes that start as funny, and then slide toward “oh fuck, that actually explains a lot… is that… me?” has led a lot of people to seek help and diagnosis, so it looks like a rise of adult au/adhd spectrum individuals.
Even people who were diagnosed may not have been diagnosed properly when it was commonly believed that ADHD and autism could not exist at once in the same person.
Yeah. Memes are like the first step towards watching/reading/hearing lived experiences, which is the most effective way the understanding of these neurotypes grows.
Speaking of ADHS memes, where are those here on lemmy?