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[quote=Anonymous]I once heard a developmental psychologist assert that ADHD is a developmental outcome as opposed to an immutable condition that just happens to some people. I thought that was interesting. It suggests that parenting techniques can play a big role in the extent to which the symptoms are expressed.

My own thoughts, based on my own education and relevant experience, are that two things may at least partly explain the apparent increase beyond just better screening and diagnosis: 1) thanks to the internet, globalization, and more women in the workplace there are more people with ADHD, ASD, and anxiety meeting each other and having children together, thus passing their genes to offspring; and 2) people are having children later in life which is linked to an increased number of chromosomal and genetic changes linked to neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric conditions. Sometimes 1) and 2) combine. I’m in academia and I can’t tell you how many people’s kids are diagnosed with one of the three conditions I listed. It seems like a perfect storm of contributing factors with people already having certain traits and delaying childbearing due to the tenure track timeline.

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