this is simply not true, and there's tons of scientific evidence of the contrary. ADHD makes you vulnerable to abuse because generally speaking people have a hard time dealing with the foibles of ADHD people. That makes you a target. We know that from science, there's no point in theorizing. ADHD is mostly genetic, highly hereditary and both under diagnosed and under treated. That's all there is to it.

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anonthrownaway 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You are arguing that childhood trauma doesn't have a causal relationship to ADHD?

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Clent 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I would argue the relationship is in the other direction. People with ADHD often have childhood trauma caused by the way others treated their ADHD symptoms in childhood.

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kelseyfrog 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Why not bi-directional?

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luckydata 4 hours ago | parent [-]

because science says it's not how it works.

	▲	kelseyfrog 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Huh, can you tell me the name of the rule? When I search for 'bidirectional causality' I get a lot of scientific results. Are those all wrong?

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luckydata 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

100%. it's genetic, what's unclear about that?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8328933/

	▲	gsnedders 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		From that meta article: > For most people with ADHD, many genetic and environmental risk factors accumulate to cause the disorder. i.e., for most people, there is no singular cause.
	▲	unyttigfjelltol 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		An experience that produces grit and resilience in one person, in another produces visits to a mental health practitioner 20 years later. The practitioner is confused and writes an article: did the event produce the long-delayed visit, or the person’s inherent way of interacting with the world? To state the question correctly, is to imply the answer. Declaring all events that subjectively motivate a mental health visit as “trauma” is to allow private realities and have the patient determine the standard of care. Factually, we all know that if someone insists on holding onto a minor slight for an extended time, this is rarely about the event itself. The mental health community got waaaayyyy off track with this radical expansion of the concept of trauma.