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If I can make one suggestion it would be to make it shorter. My damaged generation goldfish brain wanted to escape about 3 times while reading the article, even though it found it incredibly interesting.
I think you may be missing the smoking gun of neurodivergence here - there are neurological differences in all of these areas in Autism and ADHD. And these symptoms profiles are likewise generally hugely common in our community.
As someone with ADHD, I can generally confirm. And the worse part is that low dopamine effect GABA receptors too, stress affect GABA receptors too, so eventually we are in an anxiety/high cortisol/high oxidants cycle.
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If I can make one suggestion it would be to make it shorter. My damaged generation goldfish brain wanted to escape about 3 times while reading the article, even though it found it incredibly interesting.
Thank you for your comment! I should write a TL;DR for our damaged goldfish brains :D
I think you may be missing the smoking gun of neurodivergence here - there are neurological differences in all of these areas in Autism and ADHD. And these symptoms profiles are likewise generally hugely common in our community.
As someone with ADHD, I can generally confirm. And the worse part is that low dopamine effect GABA receptors too, stress affect GABA receptors too, so eventually we are in an anxiety/high cortisol/high oxidants cycle.
Yep. x