• InnuendOwO [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, that's the part we don't really know to be honest. Our findings thusfar have basically lead us to "it's probably genetic somehow, not much you can do but take meds and learn to cope".

      Unlike a lot of health issues, we didn't start with "oh hey, if your brain forms in this specific way, you act weird". Stimulants also have a side effect of dropping your appetite to basically zero, so they were originally being tested as weight loss drugs, when someone realized "hey wait this makes some really hyper kids be normal, wtf?" and we've kinda worked backward from there. This was the original ad for adderall before it rebranded, even - and that was only in the 50s and 60s, so our understanding of all this is still relatively new.