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Jacob McKevitt ENG-105 Mr. Tiedt July 28 th , 2021 ADHD has started to become more and more common in children anymore. There could be several potential reasons that this is the case some being as simple as population growth. If more people are being diagnosed with ADHD than there is most likely more than just one reason that this would be happening. Not everyone who is diagnosed may actually have ADHD, previous and or parents who still have ADHD could pass it on to their children, technology today can be much more interesting than school or what other people may have to say. One of the reasons that there has been an increase in ADHD diagnoses would be that some people that are diagnosed don’t even have ADHD. Sometimes the reasons that the people who are being diagnosed may not actually have ADHD is because of their age and the fact that their parents may not know how to deal with a very active young child or younger kid that is uninterested in school or things like it. Because of this some parents may become easily frustrated and take their child who may not be even 10 years old and get them diagnosed with ADHD and sometimes even medicated because of it. Because ADHD is not something that can be physically seen they only way to figure out if someone has it is normally through a series of tests, which are not always the same for every person, so depending on the tests that someone

gets it may appear that they have ADHD when they would not have got those same results if the test was different. Another reason that there is an increase in diagnoses could be because of parents that did have ADHD and have passed it down to one or more of their children who then could do the same thing to their kids. ADHD is a has a estimated heritability of around 70% (Mortimer, 2021). Since this disorder has such a high chance of being inherited by a genetic son or daughter, the fact that there are so many more people being diagnosed with it should not be completely shocking considering the population of the human race. But this is also why there can be so many false cases of it because if a parent knows this then they might feel like because they had it their kid definitely has it just because they will not listen to them or focus on homework. Even if the parents had ADHD when they were growing up they will be stresses out in the same way as other parents that are also experiencing ADHD from their children (Ringer 2020). Technology is another factor as to why there has been more diagnosis lately. This is because it tends to be more entertaining for children than schoolwork or reading for fun. Which has led to many people allowing their young children to basically be brought up on the internet and then when they can not access whatever they want to like YouTube or different games to play they get bored easily and very restless which is very similar to ADHD but it does not mean that they have ADHD. Some of the studies that have been done only show that people with ADHD use the internet the same as everyone else but that they may be more vulnerable to cyberbullying (Dawson,2019). While this is a good news bad news situation most of the time it is just get on waste time because they are bored. Increases in ADHD have happened for many reasons and will most likely continue to happen because of things like population increase and technology. Because of the number of

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