ADHD: Absent Dad Hyperactivity Disorder
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We know that ADHD is overwhelmingly genetic.
Thus it makes sense for a disproportionate amount of ADHDers to be raised by single parents, as sadly but not surprisingly, women with ADHD (and yes, they very much exist, and are indeed underdiagnosed) are at a higher risk of unwanted pregnancy (due to impulsiveness, a vulnerability to addiction and escapism, and problems with routines - like contraceptives) and ADHDers in general more likely to get divorced (because, well, we are not always the easiest people to deal with, especially if our condition is not known). But here, the child’s hyperactivity is not caused by the mother’s singleness. The correlation is because her singleness and her child’s ADHD have a common course: her own ADHD.
Anyways, my brother and I am very much ADHDers. And you know what? My parents were married until my father’s death when I was 19. Also, we definitively have it from my mother.
We kids were raised in a loving home with both parents, and my brother still had ADHD as a kid. How does this fit into Steffie’s mosaic of idiocy?
Also, which is it, Steffie? Absent dads or immig’ants, what cause ADHD? Leave it to an idiot to not bother with any form of internal consistency.
Funny, my brother had an absent dad even before my parents split up. And yet he's always been a calm, kind hearted and pretty much a stereotypical nerd.
I on the other hand was raised mostly by my dad for the first twelve years of life; enduring the slipper, getting screamed at, enduring long winded lectures about algebra and quadratic equations at age seven and having my overactive imagination laughed at and mocked. And yet I was the hyperactive one; constantly running around like a headless chicken and sleeping maybe two hours a night. No wonder my grandmother enrolled me in ballet lessons. Oh, and I was born with a vagina, not a penis. Your statement is bunk.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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