ADHD, Conduct Disorder and Anti-Social Personality Disorder ---- What Might Be Going On?

Does ADHD Cause Antisocial Personality Disorder?

Can You Have ADHD and ASPD?

Studies suggest that as many as 90% of adults with ADHD have other mental health disorders.

ASPD [Anti-Social Personality Disorder] is one of the most common mental disorders that happens with ADHD.

One study showed that men with ADHD were more likely to have antisocial personality disorder than women with ADHD.

Other common mental conditions you can have with ADHD are:

• Anxiety disorders
• Mood disorders
• Substance use disorders
• Behavior disorders
• Learning disabilities
• Language disorders

[These Disorders are BLURRED --- Colorado Researchers are finding that as well as researchers around the world.  See Shared Genes & Psychiatric Disorders.]

Academic Proposal that Anti-Social Personality Disorder is a Neuro-Developmental Disorder

I think in many cases the BOTTOM LINE is that some Neuro-Diverse person has limits that are NOT FALLING WITHIN Neuro-Typical Ranges ---

• and we've decided that is NOT REASONABLE ---
• and we won't take "NO" for an answer.

AND  we're often making a DIFFICULT SITUATION --- MUCH WORSE.

For many Neuro-Diverse people --- we may have been on BOTH SIDES OF THIS --- and be painfully aware both of how we wished we were treated and how we wished we would have treated others.

Conjecture

The "BLINDERS" of US vs. Them Thinking.

• The time it takes to bring things into "CONSCIOUS AWARENESS" to reach a "CRITICAL MASS"

"HIERARCHY" has really "MANAGED" a lot of disordered human behavior ---

• That is becoming less and less true.

One way of looking at this is to say ---

• We need more fair systems --- we need to PUNISH MORE PEOPLE.

I am definitely not saying anyone, including the Society at large, should IGNORE --- human behavior that is:

• a danger to others
• a danger to self or
• gravely disabled

BUT we really have to UNDERSTAND that BEHAVIOR on a much DEEPER and CELLULAR LEVEL than we have.

If all you have is "Conduct Disorder" or "Anti-Social Personality Disorder" ---

• Maybe you do go with that --
• BUT at some point it's becoming painfully obvious MORE IS GOING ON
  

Many of the people we're most concerned about --- are very open to "TREATMENT":

• We just need to know more about what we're doing ---
• And ethically address those situations -- where we don't have the best answers.
  
  • Further, if we don't have great treatments don't expect people to want sucky treatments.
    

To me this is very much about MATERNAL IMMUNE ACTIVATION and HYPER-CONNECTED BRAINS:

• that often have SOME STRENGTHS, but
• come with weaknesses in TRADITIONAL EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING.

When we think about "NEURO-PLASTICITY" --- we often think of it as something that somehow hasn't already been going on.

• I think that is a CRITICAL MISTAKE.

Not that NEURO-PLASTICITY can't maybe help in some cases ---

• BUT for many people with NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL DIFFERENCES --- it's more about DISCOVERING what NEURO-PLASTICITY has already done.
  • AND Work within those Limits.

It's fine to try and extend those LIMITS ---

• But at least some people are already MAXXED OUT using TRADITIONAL MEANS.
• If we're going to EXTEND THOSE LIMITS IN EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING:
  • We're going to need PRECISION MEDICINE, and
  • In the meantime, we need a lot more PUBLIC EDUCATION about ACCOMMODATIONS & WORK AROUNDS for EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES