Spicy Take: Most phenotypes of “ADHD” are not congenital or “genetic conditions”, they may be more accurately described as a childhood trauma/stress response.

Notes to fill in later:

Heterogeneity of expression

Overlap between ADHD and trauma response

Big astrocytes, little connections

Conforming to existing data

Why does “ADHD” look so much like dorsal flavors of “autism”?

Edit: Still working on this.

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Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity – OR isn’t great here, but this is almost certainly a methodology and reporting issue.