“How RSD Evolved from Protector to Tormentor in the ADHD Brain”
“This painful thinking pattern – sensitivity to rejection – is etched into our brains, a pattern that arguably developed for an evolutionarily adaptive purpose. It’s also a pattern that is much more amplified, I say, in the female ADHD brain.”
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@ lladutke
There was no statement made declaring that boys are bullied ‘solely’ with physical abuse. All they wrote was that the tendencies are that bullying between boys and girls is often different.
Stop looking for issues where there are none.
@ DrakkoVenMugiwing394
Men are affected by RSD as well, but this article isn’t about men. A thousand times more research has been done on males with ADHD. It’s already been proven ADHD symptoms between the genders can manifest very different. Why don’t you look for some of that research, instead of getting upset at the few articles dedicated to women.
There is a pretty big assumption that the use of physical bullying somehow means that there is no emotional/social bullying. As a young male, suffering physical abuse–even when the odds are clearly stacked against you–stigmatizes you. When I was in high school, this mean that you were “a girl” or “gay.” Female students joined in on some very serious emotional abuse that left lasting scars.
I was also virgin shamed well into college by both males and females–including some women who claimed to be feminists.
Part of the reason I was bullied was because of my ASD. Though I did not recognize it at the time, I came from a relatively poor background compared to other white kids in the town.
Question: Does that only apply to girls and women? Or do us males face it too?