cjazz108

So are all people redeemable, or are there truly some that have no conscience, and no empathy?

This is adequately summarizes both sides of a serious debate, each of which seems to have merits.

I've recently read that people who have high ACE (adverse childhood experiences) scores, pretty statistically have higher and more pronounced symptoms of ADHD. Parents with ACEs have more kids with ADHD, etc.

We need lots of ways of looking at people's brains. We need to have different ways of attaining focus. We also need therapies that address underlying cause of stressors that undermine focus. I hope we can have an "and" instead of a "but" type referendum on approaches - because we need more diverse views, and, we need to take diagnoses seriously, and we we need to know that there are treatments and behaviors that can decrease symptoms, and not everyone has the emotional privilege to be able to access those treatments and be supported in making them stick.

Is this a more palatable approach?