As recently implied in another post, I’m fighting through a Major Depression episode. The net effect is very low, because I’ve been able to develop a fair bit of coping skills specific to these episodes; unfortunately, this means that even more of my energy than normal has been spent on being a Functioning Day Care Teacher, with almost no brain power left over for outside my job.
I just received a fairly rude reply on one of my posts, and that is NOT the issue.
I’m probably going to block them when I feel like it anyway; do not interact with that person.
The Point:
The comment brought up “Where is your research?” for this post:
It’s struck me, how much ADHD and Autism are defined by how we’re perceived on the outside, and told so often we end up agreeing. And not o
And that is something I’ve been wanting to get into for a while, but been unable to work on because I’ve been fighting stress so hard since posting it.
I know for a fact my understanding of the effect of stimulants on ADHD (which was the basis of some of my other assumptions) is flat out wrong, and been working on updating my understanding there.
I want to be able to put up an updating “Here’s want I got wrong, here’s what’s still helpful” for a while.
Can anyone direct me to relevant research so I can better educate myself on the current understanding of the underlying mechanisms of ADHD and Autism, in contrast to the Medical Model (the symptoms that annoy outside neurotypicals enough to want to change) that dominates public understanding of the conditions?