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[-] Snowman@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago

I haven't done too much research into ADHD (which I don't have) but if it's anything like autism (which I do have) then it may well be that it's just massively under diagnosed in people who aren't rich, white, boys. I know they aren't the same but that's certainly the case for autism, and there is a high rate of co-occurrence between the two.

[-] Sagifurius@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Some articles mentioned something along those lines, but they seemed more written with an axe to grind, and more from the states. The rich part I can't speak to, but autism is just plain more common in whites than blacks, not underdiagnosed, to my understanding. Ed girlfriend used to work with the autistic, and in a heavily multicutural city where white people are not a clear majority, nearly all the severely autistic she worked with were white/iranian/middle eastern/ other whitish varieties it seemed, hardly any black or asian.

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