People with ADHD report cannabis helps. The controlled research mostly does not confirm it as a treatment. Both are consistently true across decades of data. The full evidence picture is what almost nobody is telling straight on 420.
https://tinyurl.com/mr3sbd9c
43 studies on neurodiverse kids and nature. The mechanism isn't burning off energy. It's that natural environments engage the kind of attention that doesn't cost anything, which is exactly what an #ADHD brain needs after a full day of the kind that costs everything.
https://tinyurl.com/4hmaxf6n
My apology to those that I offended.
Ok, not really 😏🤪
#abpoli #abpolitics #ucp #cpc #lpc
57% of adults with #ADHD meet criteria for a personality disorder. General population: 7.8%. The tools may be diagnosing ADHD symptoms as personality pathology. That is not a footnote. That is the finding. Scholar Series on Substack. tinyurl.com/ymm433sy
ADHD plus anxiety isn't additive. It has its own cognitive profile. New research identified the specific control system that breaks down when both are present. Worth knowing if you work with kids, or if you are one grown up.
https://tinyurl.com/m2xu28c5
Dark humour in autistic brains is doing three jobs simultaneously: emotional bypass, pressure release, and in-group signal. Research confirms it works. Also confirms it can backfire. Knowing which job the joke is doing is the actual skill.
tinyurl.com/yvn3cyff
A 2026 paper examined the tension between the biomedical model and neurodiversity paradigm in ADHD.
Both have strong arguments & significant criticisms.
Asking which one is "right" is the wrong question.
The goal is developing a conscious, informed position that can hold both.
tinyurl.com/3sau3259
New research confirms what ADHD brains have been doing intuitively for years. Music isn't a distraction from focus. For a lot of us, it's the only reason focus was possible at all.
https://tinyurl.com/7fsm2dk7
New research: demand avoidance in adults significantly predicted by anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty.
Not willpower failure. Not defiance.
The avoidance-anxiety loop tightens every time you avoid. You never gather evidence it could have been okay. So next time feels worse.
tinyurl.com/3dpbcnzd
The 2022-2023 ADHD medication shortage was caused by supply chain failure, not overprescribing.
A 2026 Yale/JAMA study found only 70% of production quotas met because they couldn't get raw materials. 1/3 of US pharmaceutical ingredients came from a single facility.
https://tinyurl.com/324h29de
A Stay Free Alberta canvasser came to my door asking me to sign their sovereignty petition. 😆
This isn’t patriotism.
It’s grievance politics, xenophobia in a nicer hat, and fantasy economics wrapped in a flag.
And bitching about immigrants on treaty land?
That’s the irony Olympics.
#abpoli
A 2026 systematic review confirms:
Most top ADHD TikTok content is misleading. The misleading content gets almost all the engagement. And watching it makes people more confident in wrong information, not less.
Self-diagnosis is valid. What you build it on matters.
tinyurl.com/2c2surmc
I wish a day could go by that I didn't have to see the mango's brigade of such spineless, kiss ass, boot licking, sycophantic little bitches, but here we are. Seriously, how do they all not have permanent bronzer lips from all that ball-sucking? What a bunch of pathetic fucking cowards.
I've been writing articles breaking down new peer-reviewed information coming out on ADHD and autism. I'm trying to better automate for when I post a new article that I let you all know about it here, since MS exhaustion truly makes it difficult. Doing my best though. Thanks for sticking with me ;)
A scoping review looked at 602 studies on autistic young adults.
Nearly half included fewer women than a 4:1 ratio.
50 included zero women.
Gender minorities: 0.2% of participants.
Many of those studies had titles describing their findings as applying to "autistic young adults."
tinyurl.com/528p59mh
50 studies. Nearly 6,000 participants. The barriers to adult autism diagnosis are structural, not incidental. And post-diagnostic support barely exists.
The system was not built for late-diagnosed adults. Now there is evidence to prove it.
tinyurl.com/bp76jt8d
39% of people with ADHD stop their stimulants within a year.
A new study says genetics are part of why, and the biology looks totally different in kids vs adults.
It was never just noncompliance.
Scholar Series Quick Read: tinyurl.com/y2bnjcuh #ADHD #Neurodivergent #LateDiagnosis
Over half of autistic people may have measurable differences in how the brain combines sound from both ears. The brainstem hardware is physically different. Standard hearing tests miss it entirely.
Scholar Series Quick Read on Substack. tinyurl.com/2z7y3cyb
Stimulants raise heart rate and blood pressure modestly. That is pharmacology. But across nearly 4 million people studied, no significant increase in serious cardiovascular events. Monitor, do not panic.
Scholar Series Quick Read on Substack. tinyurl.com/38fsjwnp
*Watches Star Fleet Academy... watches anything Star Trek... watches anything Star Wars... watches anything I like... listens to people piss and moan because something wasn't exactly what THEY wanted so they shit on anyone that does enjoy it...*
Can't we just let people like things anymore?
ADHD relationship research: it's not the forgetting that does the most damage. It's the emotional dysregulation nobody told either person about. Rejection sensitivity. The slow drift into parent-child dynamics. Understanding the mechanism changes everything. tinyurl.com/pzr3npsz
AuDHD is not two conditions in a trench coat. Brain imaging shows the comorbid presentation runs on unique neural mechanisms seen in neither pure ADHD nor pure ASD. The research is catching up to what AuDHD people already knew.
tinyurl.com/4ed276ea
We borrowed the masking framework from autism and applied it to ADHD without validating it. Problem: masking requires the exact executive skills ADHD impairs. ADHD concealment is real. The framework might not fit. New Scholar Series article https://tinyurl.com/bdesu5bc
@robertpicardo.bsky.social "Then why haven't we left yet?" The Doctor that we never knew that we wanted. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
New ADHD model: it is not an attention problem. It is a power supply problem. Executive function costs energy. When energy is low, expensive operations shut down first. The inconsistency is not a flaw. It is physics.
https://tinyurl.com/y9b5tj4y
The internal clock in #ADHD is not broken. A 2026 dimensional review suggests timing differences reflect regulatory variability tied to attention and motivation, not fixed impairment. Context and structure influence consistency. Full breakdown on Substack. tinyurl.com/mvj6e7tk
Loneliness in autistic and ADHD males is measurable. A 2026 scoping review of 82 studies found consistent differences in perceived belonging & social support, associated with mental health risk. Correlation, not causation. Still clinically relevant. Full breakdown tinyurl.com/bdcmbstu
#ADHD
#Autism
Late autism diagnosis explains regulatory patterns. It does not define personality or worth.
Over-identification after diagnosis is common and temporary when processed well.
Use the label to reduce friction, not shrink identity.
Full Scholar Series breakdown on Substack.
https://tinyurl.com/yz6chy26
If effort fixed ADHD, it would have fixed it by now.
Executive function is not motivation. Research on initiation latency and reward regulation suggests friction, not character, is often the bottleneck.
New Scholar Series breakdown. Fully free on Substack.
https://l.com/zb5a8ama
Sleep problems in early autism are often dismissed as “just part of it.”
Longitudinal data suggests something more uncomfortable:
Sleep and behavioural regulation influence each other over time.
Full breakdown in today’s Scholar post.
tinyurl.com/mvdr3m3n
