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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by garmaine on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:01AM (#17226216)
As someone with an Adult ADHD diagnosis, this has definitely been my experience. Adults weren't even being diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child and it was never brought up when I showed the signs in school. Now I'm receiving treatment and thankful for it, and my kids will be screened.

That's not to say the rate of mental illness is going up or down or staying the same. But measuring the per capita diagnosis rate won't tell you anything about that.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by spiralx on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:31AM (#17226763)
> As someone with an Adult ADHD diagnosis, this has definitely been my experience. Adults weren't even being diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child and it was never brought up when I showed the signs in school. Now I'm receiving treatment and thankful for it, and my kids will be screened.

Same here in all respects.

> But measuring the per capita diagnosis rate won't tell you anything about that.

I believe that some of the increase in diagnosis rates is because of increasing diagnosis in historically under-diagnosed groups, especially in the US where access to healthcare hasn't been available to everyone.

https://www.additudemag.com/race-and-adhd-how-people-of-colo...

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