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TomK32 commented on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds cam.ac.uk/research/news/h... · Posted by u/gnabgib

TomK32 · 3 days ago

My brother was diagnosed in his first year at school, didn't help prevent his criminal career later on. Diagnosis, even a self-diagnosis like I did at 42, is just the first step but for kids the right actions and help could indeed prevent so much suffering. Self-medication, drug abuse to calm down the mind, can be prevented quite easily with proper ADHD medication that shows a great rate of success.

Studies from Norway and the US show results fitting this one https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-021-03223-0 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2581455/

TomK32 commented on Show HN: DailyMe–I built an RPG task tracker for ADHD son build self-disclpline dailyme.app/... · Posted by u/nananono

nananono · 4 days ago

Hi HN, I'm the creator of DailyMe.

I built this app because traditional reward charts weren't working for my son, who has mild ADHD. The "top-down" approach of parents setting rules and pushing tasks just created anxiety and resistance. DailyMe flips this by focusing on intrinsic motivation through RPG mechanics:

1. Agency: Kids co-create their rewards and goals (from "have to" to "want to"). 2. Gamification: Tasks are "Quests," and progress is visualized on an achievement board. 3. Partnership: It changes the parent's role from supervisor to ally.

It started as a paper prototype that solved our nightly homework struggles, and I turned it into an app to help other families facing executive function challenges.

I'd love to hear your feedback on the gamification logic or any features you think are missing!

TomK32 · 3 days ago

I'll give it a try and let me know if you need a German translation.

I recently started using beaverhabits https://github.com/daya0576/beaverhabits/ for its simplicity but obviously I love gamification.

A few things I noticed though: * I'd love to add a task to a future date. * A flag on (future) tasks to notify when I ought to start them * Please pre-fill the minutes with 00 * The icons selection for the profiles is a bit boring. Why not just a search across whatever icon font (unicode?) you use? * Is there a dedicated view for just the profile without the noise around it? * There's a little animation that moves a task up when I hover it on desktop, is that by design?

TomK32 commented on ADHD diagnoses are growing. What's going on? nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/bikenaga

nacozarina · 18 days ago

adhd diagnoses are largely based on self-reported symptoms to gain access to otherwise-prohibited performance-enhancing drugs; Shirley an increasing volume of diagnoses is inescapable?

TomK32 · 18 days ago

Before posting your comments, please can you read the article first and do a little more research including what people with ADHD experienced in their life before they got their diagnosis and help?

Many get (mis-)diagnosed with depression where the meds are much less easy and effective compared to ADHD. Un-diagnosed ADHD often leads to self-medication with alcohol or drugs, two things with very adverse side-effects even though one of them is legal. Studies show that treating ADHD with medication does lower the risk of substance abuse: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4147667/

Btw, there are no indications that ADHD medication has a positive long-term effect in non-medical use. If you can already focus your mind at the things before you without ADHD medication then you'd only waste your money if you took meds.

PS: Don't call me Shirley

TomK32 commented on ADHD diagnoses are growing. What's going on? nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/bikenaga

dhharker · 18 days ago

Article also makes no mention of the fact that childhood trauma/adverse experiences can induce adhd symptoms.

TomK32 · 18 days ago

Fact? Far from and if only in a small minority. I know Gabor Maté likes to push trauma as a cause (as far as his ridiculous remote diagnosis of Prince Harry), if not main cause for ADHD but the vast majority of ADHD is due to genetics, 70-80% as the article states. Don't forget siblings and parents when looking at an ADHD person. When the parent has ADHD there's a higher risk for the child to have adverse experiences as this study describes: https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(16)30416-...

TomK32 commented on John Hopkins: taking Tylenol during pregnancy associated with Autism ADHD (2019) hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/05/ac... · Posted by u/g42gregory

DaveZale · 3 months ago

sure, like a study of tylenol plus probiotics supplement (kefir might work) to restore healthy gut microbes that might have been compromised by tylenol consumption?

Also, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and others might also be trying to curry favors from rfk jr and the big guy?

Occam's razor - favoring the simplest explanation - may explain mob-like social media behavior.

TomK32 · 2 months ago

The study is from 2019, unis weren't under any pressure back then.

TomK32 commented on John Hopkins: taking Tylenol during pregnancy associated with Autism ADHD (2019) hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/05/ac... · Posted by u/g42gregory

TomK32 · 2 months ago

In the study's Limitations sections it says what Russell Barkley always points out[1] as the missing key component in ADHD and autism studies: "Fourth, because of our observational study design, we were unable to exclude the potential residual confounders because of unmeasured genetic and environmental factors."

Both ADHD and autism have genetic causes in 80% of cases and run in families, not measuring genetic factors makes this whole study a waste of time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

TomK32 commented on In Utero Acetaminophen Exposure: Risk of ADHD and Autism? (John Hopkins) jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/physarum_salad

TomK32 · 2 months ago

In the limitations it says what Russell Barkley always points out[1] as the missing key component in ADHD and autism studies: "Fourth, because of our observational study design, we were unable to exclude the potential residual confounders because of unmeasured genetic and environmental factors."

Both ADHD and autism have genetic causes in 80% of cases and run in families, not measuring genetic factors makes this whole study a waste of time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

TomK32 commented on Trump admin links autism and Tylenol ingredient use during pregnancy cnbc.com/2025/09/22/trump... · Posted by u/hmm37

tzs · 3 months ago

This is way better than I expected.

RFK Jr has long suggested that WiFi and cellular radio may be significant factor in autism (and ADHD, allergies, and obesity). I was expecting then that the big autism announcement would either be that or his old fallback of vaccines.

At least with Tylenol there is (if I correctly understood what I heard about this for the 2-3 minutes I had NPR on while driving to the AM/PM for a snack) there is a correlation between autism and use of Tylenol during pregnancy.

The discussion on NPR, which included a researcher who wrote a paper that the government is basing this on I believe, said that there is no evidence that there is causality here. Nearly everyone in the field thinks that it is far more likely that whatever is causing autism might also increase the likelihood of pain during pregnancy, and so the correlation with Tylenol is simply because those mothers turn to a pain reducing drug and Tylenol is the most commonly recommended drug for that.

Also, Trump managed to get through this without somehow finding a way to directly blame autism on the left/Democrats, so that too is way better than I expected.

TomK32 · 3 months ago

Not sure why you got downvotes for sarcasm.

Russ Barkley did a video three weeks ago on I guess that study (or meta study) and it's not just the likely increased pain in mothers with ADHS but as soon as you take in a control group like siblings the correlation just vanishes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

TomK32 commented on Trump links autism to Tylenol and vaccines, claims not backed by science reuters.com/business/heal... · Posted by u/geox

floxy · 3 months ago

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/fact-evidence-su...

TomK32 · 3 months ago

Russ Barkley explains what is missing in studies that try to show correlation between the mother's medication and ADHD in offspring. As soon as a study takes on a control mechanism like siblings the correlation disappears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

TomK32 commented on Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan blogs.cisco.com/security/... · Posted by u/rldjbpin

omneity · 3 months ago

Yeah it’s a pretty crazy decision to be honest. Flashbacks to MongoDB and ElasticSearch’s early days.

Fortunately it’s an easy fix. Just front it with nginx or caddy and expect a bearer token (that would be your api key)

TomK32 · 3 months ago

Early MongoDB adapter here who still likes it. If your internal services are accessible from outside you are doing it wrong. Neither MongoDB nor ES or ollama are services that my applications would access through a public IP and whenever a dev asks me for access to the DB from the comfort of their home office I tell them what VPN to log into.

Even if those services had some access protection, I simply must assume that the service has some security leak that allows unauthorized access and the first line of defense against that is not having it on the public internet.