A casual community for people with ADHD
Values:
Acceptance, Openness, Understanding, Equality, Reciprocity.
Rules:
- No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments.
- No porn, gore, spam, or advertisements allowed.
- Do not request for donations.
- Do not link to other social media or paywalled content.
- Do not gatekeep or diagnose.
- Mark NSFW content accordingly.
- No racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, or ageism.
- Respectful venting, including dealing with oppressive neurotypical culture, is okay.
- Discussing other neurological problems like autism, anxiety, ptsd, and brain injury are allowed.
- Discussions regarding medication are allowed as long as you are describing your own situation and not telling others what to do (only qualified medical practitioners can prescribe medication).
Encouraged:
- Funny memes.
- Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
- Questions on confusing situations.
- Seeking and sharing support.
- Engagement in our values.
Relevant Lemmy communities:
Autism
ADHD Memes
Bipolar Disorder
Therapy
Mental Health
Neurodivergent Life Hacks
lemmy.world/c/adhd will happily promote other ND communities as long as said communities demonstrate that they share our values.
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Everytime someone says “X causes neurodivergency Y” unless they are talking about consumption by the mother, they are almost certainly full of it.
ADHD is formed prenatally, it is almost never developed with age, just the symptoms develop with age.
The article is not claiming that food colouring causes neurodiverdancy. The summary of the article states:
It then goes on to explain that food colouring can affect the behaviour of young children, including those with ADHD.
Click bait title does. I don’t care if the article itself goes on to contradict the title.