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satinsateensaltine t1_j66rk6v wrote

I've seen it in person twice and he's just as amazing each time. The eyes look like they could come alive at any minute. It's a shame the digging that found it also crushed the hind end but what a find. They have a model of its head next to the case that you can pet and you bet I have.

Edit: also I was just in Drumheller last September and the same weekend, someone found what appears to be a whole hadrosaur just sticking out of the stratigraphy in the hills. I love that hellscape so much.

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autistic_bard444 t1_j66pfcn wrote

trauma makes the predisposition to it come forth

genetics still plays an important role itself, due to gene expression.

just like gestational exposure of air pollution to a mother can increase the odds of autism spectrum disorder.

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Causes of ADHD

Brain injury.

Exposure to environmental risks (e.g., lead) during pregnancy or at a young age.

Alcohol and tobacco use during pregnancy.

Premature delivery.

Low birth weight.

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https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html

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lemme tell you traumatic brain injuries suck

had one at 9, 17, 20 and a huge one at 37 (the perils of being a lumberjack. no one gets out of that industry unscarred unless they only work one day).

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Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAH, a component of air pollution, raises the odds of behavior problems associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, at age 9, according to researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of ...Nov 5, 2014

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https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/adhd-air-pollution-link

boys tend to have the greatest risk of inheriting or ending up adhd

air pollution is liable to be one of the main causes of why so many more kids are being born neurodivergent

never mind all the chemicals in the water, especially here in illinois with the coal ash and pesticides/herbicides which end up back in the water supplies (this is also why kidney disease is the largest death machine in illinois)

brains are sensitive organs. it does not take much to mess them up

and ptsd/cptsd/neglect/sexual abuse/physical abuse can mess up a young mind like a grenade will mess up an apple tree

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Delet3r t1_j66kz7p wrote

Except plenty of people have ADHD without those issues. Itoesbt make sense. If trauma caused it, they'd have been shouting it from the rooftops decades ago.

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adastraperabsurda t1_j66858u wrote

Well, from what I have read about ADHD it’s mostly genetic but also brain trauma (child abuse).

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/causes/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6864256/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013278/

ADHD effects executive functioning which is directly related to how someone deals with stress or emotional regulation. So, a parent with ADHD may be more prone to spanking their kids or yelling at their kids- thus abuse may be more prevalent in their family history and “normalized.” And as ADHD parents tend to have ADHD kids, the emotional regulation issues create a vicious cycle.

This being said: a lot of the articles I have read don’t argue causative (mostly correlative) because of the genetic factors at play.

Recently I’ve been thinking that a lot of my parents behavior and addictions are all symptoms of adhd. So there is that.

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