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>ADHD is always from birth and for life. They make it sound like something that can start at random. In medical terms the "onset" matters, and that's not neces
by coldtea 3y ago
>ADHD is always from birth and for life. They make it sound like something that can start at random.
In medical terms the "onset" matters, and that's not necessarily from birth.
In fact it can be so later, that while the DSM had a maximum age at onset diagnostic criterion for "before 7 years of age" for ADHD, it's now advised to relax it to 12.
- Asraelite 3y agoBy "onset" do you mean when it starts affecting their behavior in any way, or when it starts being noticeable/causing problems?
- coldtea 3y agoOnset is when symptoms can be observed. In practice (and phenomenologically speaking) it's the same as "when it starts affecting their behavior in any way", since we can't say it affects it if we can't see any sign of it affecting it. Unless we can observe or measure (and unless we do observe or measure) we'd just be assuming that "of course it does". Which might be a good assumption, but it would still be an assumption.