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/Imlostandconfused 1d ago

My favourite game is finding 'patient zero' among my ADHD friends and loved ones' families. My fiancé and his two sisters have ADHD and he was stumped about where it came from. All it took for me was hearing one phone call between him and his mum to determine it. Then he told me about his grandfather's brief obsession with collecting Mini Cooper's- dude bought like 8 during the first year of his retirement. Patient zero. We couldn't go back further than that, but it's satisfying and my fiancé appreciated it because he genuinely never considered that his mum and grandfather had it until I pointed it out. It explained a lot about his childhood when he realised.

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u/DenM0ther 1d ago

Hahahaha I love doing this too!

Both sides of my family have significant amounts of ADHD, one side with few AuADHDer's. Most of them didn't want to accept it, dx or not. They'll still reference traits of it (and their other conditions) as explanations or excuses!!!

My ND (dx) bf, got quite offended when I said that his grandfather sounded like he had adhd. He was(is?) internalising it as something being 'wrong'. Overtime bf thought about his granddad and agreed.