r/adhdwomen • u/Mamahei2 • 1d ago

General Question/Discussion Do some of y’all have genetic ADHD?

Literally my mom, my sister, my niece, my nephew, and I all have ADHD as well as me and my mom having autism.

Edit: I’m more so talking about ADHD being a dominant trait (at least for my family)

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u/Mierkatte 1d ago

I believe it’s all genetic… 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Granite_0681 1d ago

Point me to the first person in a family to get diagnosed and I will point out classically undiagnosed and potentially in denial people in the previous generation….

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u/ralphjuneberry 1d ago

I was just thinking the other day how absolutely hellish all of human history was for folks - and not in the usual “little-to-no-sanitation” kind of way. For example, I have had misophonia my entire life. As a child, I would pray to God to be stricken deaf. We weren’t religious. I didn’t encounter the word ‘misophonia’ until late college - and am still learning to understand it many years later - but being able to name it and have others validate has made an entire world of difference. And that’s just one little tiny example.

All of these neurodivergent things - humans have all been suffering through them with such little relief for so, so, long. The breadth and depth is so vast. It’s … mind-boggling.

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u/Western_Ring_2928 1d ago

Society was more tolerant in many ways back in the days. The connection to nature was available to more people. The phase of life was easier and more in tune with our biology and the cycles of Earth. Our suffering nowadays comes mostly from our society being inhumane to everyone.

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u/ralphjuneberry 1d ago

Thank you for replying to me, but I respectfully disagree. The general ‘society’ is barely tolerant now, and much less so going back even one generation. Unfathomable racism, misogyny, -phobia of every sort and degree, leading to so many being killed directly and indirectly. There is no utopian ideal that we have strayed from, but rather one to strive towards.