Neuroscientist podcaster with 20+ hours of ADHD content discovers it MIGHT be genetic "but there are too many variables to separate"!!!

[u/Budget_Shallan]

[u/PatchyWhiskers]

My kid has ADHD, my husband has ADHD, and his family on the paternal side are all diagnosed or just act like they have ADHD. Family events are interesting.

[u/DemonicAltruism → u/[deleted]]

both of my parents show signs of it... My Dad is especially inattentive and loses track of time very easily. He forgets things mid sentence and is very easy to drive off track into a completely different topic...

He refuses to get diagnosed because of asshats like this Huberman telling him all he needs is some vitamins and a "healthy diet" (he HATES veggies btw... Go figure...) he's subscribed to like, 4 different vitamin regimen subscription services and buys directly from advocate (a MLM) on a regular basis... He's part of the reason I've gone down the skeptic rabbit hole lol...

My mom is just really stubborn and also forgets things easily... However both my half siblings are diagnosed ASD so... Idk, maybe a double whammy for me over here... (For clarity, only have an ADHD diagnosis, not a co-morbidity with ASD)

[u/Appropriate-Food1757 → u/[deleted]]

Me too. Then I thought about my Dad and brother!

[u/SocDemGenZGaytheist → u/PatchyWhiskers]

damn that's crazy it's almost like

ADHD is…	1st Author	Year
74% heritable	Faraone	2019
75% heritable	Schachar	2014
80% heritable	Chang	2013
76% heritable	Rommelse	2010
76% heritable	Faraone	2004

[u/littlelupie → u/PatchyWhiskers]

I have ADHD, my kid has ADHD, my dad and sister both have ADHD. My poor mother and partner don't and they are saints for putting up with us lol 

[u/BioMed-R → u/PatchyWhiskers]

Yuge overdiagnosis.

I couldn’t believe in a diagnosis that some assign to double digit numbers of the population.

[u/ZZ9ZA → u/BioMed-R]

So you take the position that Asthma and Diabetes’s don’t exist?

[u/BioMed-R → u/ZZ9ZA]

These are only barely in the double digits… there are doctors who say ADHD affects 50% of the population and the probability that someone’s whole kin is affected is absurd. That’s overdiagnosis.

[u/SocDemGenZGaytheist → u/BioMed-R]

I couldn’t believe in a diagnosis that some assign to double digit numbers of the population

how about “obese” (~42%) or “nearsighted” (~30%)

[u/BioMed-R → u/SocDemGenZGaytheist]

Those statistics are American, not global. That’s cherry-picking.

It’s a behavioral diagnosis – normal range behavior pathologized.

[u/Essekker → u/BioMed-R]

Hold up, am I understanding your comment right; Too many people supposedly have it, therefore you don't believe in the diagnosis in the first place?

[u/BioMed-R → u/Essekker]

It’s normal range behavior. A comparable problem would “overweight” individuals according to BMI have better health.