“Does ADHD mean you’re always hyperactive?”
One aspect of ADHD is difficulties in the brain's impulse self-regulation systems, which in childhood can manifest as movement that's deemed excessive, but this is neither required …
Diagnosis & Assessment
“Is ADHD just about not being able to pay attention?”
Attention is only one possible component of ADHD. We now also understand attention to be variable in ADHD, with a difficulty for the brain to self-regulate attention.
“Is ADHD caused by trauma?”
While ADHD correlates with a higher number of adverse childhood experiences, hundreds of studies show that traumatic experiences are not a causative factor - if anything, it’s the …
“Will I still be myself after an ADHD / Autism diagnosis?”
You won't lose yourself - in fact, most people find the opposite happens. As you gain clarity and self-compassion, drop the shame around your struggles, and learn to unmask more, …
“I don’t want to become my label and use my neurodivergence as an excuse”
If you're worried about this, you're already not that person. Asking for accommodations (like quiet spaces, reminders, breaks) is self-care and self-advocacy. The difference …
“Why get an ADHD / autism diagnosis just to get a label?”
Whether you like it or not, you already have labels — lazy, scatterbrain, weird, messy — given to you by others. You have probably internalised many of them over the decades, too. …
“What can a neurodivergent diagnosis give me if I got this far on my own?”
You’ve developed coping strategies and made it work so far. Hooray! But what’s working today might not work tomorrow — especially when life throws big changes at you like hormonal …
“I’m afraid of a diagnosis, I don’t want to be fixed!”
Good news: a neurodivergent diagnosis isn't about fixing you, because you're not broken. What it actually does is give you a framework to understand how your brain works and what …
ADHD & Autism on the Rise: Are There More Neurodivergent People Now?
Why it seems there are more neurodivergent people now than before, when in fact we've always been here.
diagnostic criteria
Diagnostic criteria are prerequisites for a diagnosis: in the case of neurodivergence, they are the presentations and traits an assessor is looking for when diagnosing a person …
titration
Titration is when together with your medical professional you trial different types of medications and the doctor then adjusts the dose based on your experience.
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