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A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Re: A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Post by olyjohn »

bluefirebrand wrote: post #8

I've been learning a lot about this sort of thing. I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2020 or so, and just the past August was also diagnosed with celiac. It seems that there's some pretty strong correlation between the two.

I was noticing the other day how my pollen allergies would subside when I took some Adderall, and would come back when it wore off. I looked it up and there are actually correlations between allergies and ADHD. I'm not sure if Celiac is the same kind of allergy or not, but I thought it was interesting.

Re: A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Post by [deleted] »

virtualritz wrote: post #13

This is a stark reminder why you use LaTex or typst with a good template for typesetting your scientific contributions. Unless you learned basic typography that is. This eyesore looks like it was done in Word & Co. What a pity, given what a treasure trove this is. As someone with a partner who has ADHD I think this should be mandatory reading for any GP.

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Re: A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Post by cjbgkagh »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #30
nkoren wrote: post #15

On the off-chance that psychosomatic suggestibility is on this list, I'm not even looking at it.

Psychosomatic suggestibility is not on the list. These are also all chronic conditions, so if the descriptions don't match your history, you have nothing to worry about.

Though statistically if you’ve previously been told you have something psychosomatic the odds are pretty good that you have something on this list.

Re: A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Post by DANmode »

Rekindle8090 wrote: post #24

I think this has nothing to do with commonality and more to do with the fact everyone I know who is autistic (I work in tech) has been obsessively getting themselves diagnosed with things since they were like 14 like its a religion. Just has a new thing wrong with them weekly

Everything looks like a conspiracy|hypochondria, when you understand nothing.

Re: A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Post by lazyasciiart »

analog8374 wrote: post #14

Autism and ADHD are a (deep) habit of the attention. A habit of moving the attention in a way that is possibly unhealthy, unuseful and probably discordant to what's common and normal. One solution is to change that habit with drugs or therapy. Another solution is to gain a greater understanding of your attention. Thus gaining a new freedom to move your attention in whatever way, rather than suffering the governance o…

Ok now explain why some toddlers have such extreme “habits of attention” that they can’t interact with other people safely, and how meditation will help them.

Re: A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Post by sneak »

cjbgkagh wrote: post #12

This is great, check my post history, I've been beating this drum for many years now. hEDS is very very very under-diagnosed and this one simple fact is sufficient to explain a the prevalence of a whole zoo of seemingly unrelated conditions. There is an incentive to keep hEDS as a 'rare' disease as the US has extra grants for disease in this classification and this has put pressure on diagnostic criteria which was ma…

That sounds like a high cholesterol diet. It’s very easy to get heart disease (the #1 killer!) doing that.

Re: A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Post by cjbgkagh »

sneak wrote: post #37
cjbgkagh wrote: post #12

This is great, check my post history, I've been beating this drum for many years now. hEDS is very very very under-diagnosed and this one simple fact is sufficient to explain a the prevalence of a whole zoo of seemingly unrelated conditions. There is an incentive to keep hEDS as a 'rare' disease as the US has extra grants for disease in this classification and this has put pressure on diagnostic criteria which was ma…

That sounds like a high cholesterol diet. It’s very easy to get heart disease (the #1 killer!) doing that.

Turns out I have great cholesterol.

Re: A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Post by analog8374 »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #36
analog8374 wrote: post #14

Autism and ADHD are a (deep) habit of the attention. A habit of moving the attention in a way that is possibly unhealthy, unuseful and probably discordant to what's common and normal. One solution is to change that habit with drugs or therapy. Another solution is to gain a greater understanding of your attention. Thus gaining a new freedom to move your attention in whatever way, rather than suffering the governance o…

Ok now explain why some toddlers have such extreme “habits of attention” that they can’t interact with other people safely, and how meditation will help them.

The benefits would be the same.

As for the actual method of meditation, for a toddler? Well that's tricky.

I imagine that you'd have to turn it into a toy or a game.

Interesting question.

Re: A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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Post by bigbuppo »

analog8374 wrote: post #25
grzracz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Calling autism and ADHD "habits of attention" severely understates what's going on. These are neurodevelopmental conditions with substantial genetic and neurobiological components, not patterns someone can think their way out of. That framing has done real damage to people who delayed treatment because they believed they just needed more discipline or insight. Meditation can be a useful complement for some people, bu…

I don't think it understates it. I think that reality is basically made of habit. Habit is a bigger deal than you think.

Habit is just cognitive behavioral therapy.
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