Major eye rolling over here about the idea of “adult onset ADHD” being a separate experience from childhood ADHDers. IMO it’s just another in the long list of neuronormative research observing behavior and trying to make sense of it without sufficiently asking the people actually having the experience.
For me, along with many other late identified ADHDers, it was the load of raising children, working, and keeping a house running that brought up the possibility of ADHD - which you allude to with demands surpassing capacity at a late age.
Another interesting piece to bring in is the ongoing heaviness of late stage capitalism on everyone. That may lead to an increasing number of people considering ADHD as a possibility for themselves, as we have so little access to safety nets or community more broadly. As the window of neuronormativity becomes smaller, more and more people identify as neurodivergent.
Hi, good to hear from you! You took on a lot. Raising children, working, and keeping a house running can each be challenging for people with ADHD separately, much less together.
It makes sense that the less community is available to us and the fewer safety nets we have, the harder life becomes and the more likely we are to show signs of ADHD!
For various reasons, I'm not using that sociopoliticaleconomic framing here, but feel free to delve into it more yourself.
Major eye rolling over here about the idea of “adult onset ADHD” being a separate experience from childhood ADHDers. IMO it’s just another in the long list of neuronormative research observing behavior and trying to make sense of it without sufficiently asking the people actually having the experience.
For me, along with many other late identified ADHDers, it was the load of raising children, working, and keeping a house running that brought up the possibility of ADHD - which you allude to with demands surpassing capacity at a late age.
Another interesting piece to bring in is the ongoing heaviness of late stage capitalism on everyone. That may lead to an increasing number of people considering ADHD as a possibility for themselves, as we have so little access to safety nets or community more broadly. As the window of neuronormativity becomes smaller, more and more people identify as neurodivergent.
Hi, good to hear from you! You took on a lot. Raising children, working, and keeping a house running can each be challenging for people with ADHD separately, much less together.
It makes sense that the less community is available to us and the fewer safety nets we have, the harder life becomes and the more likely we are to show signs of ADHD!
For various reasons, I'm not using that sociopoliticaleconomic framing here, but feel free to delve into it more yourself.