Chels Smith’s Reviews > Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder > Status Update

ADHD— it’s not that a certain part of the brain has a disorder, rather that it is underdeveloped- certain connections were never formed.

The idea of sensitive people being like people with allergies was so awesome!

“A 1982 study found that “the rate of adoption among ADD patients in the clinical population was 8 to 16 times the prevalence of adopted children in the population at large”[4] If you have ADD, you have a far higher than average chance of having been adopted.”
It seems that the opposite would be true? If you are adopted, you have a far higher chance of having ADD..

“ADD is a diagnosis not of category but of dimension.”

“I’m cut off from people, so anxious that if I don’t work overtime to establish contact with them, I will be left alone.” —> why children with ADD talk so much 🤯🤯