ADHD Wise Squirrels for late-diagnosed adults with ADHD.
Oct 7, 2026 · 57 min · 15 segments
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J. Russell RamsayGuestDave DelaneyHostThere are these self-proclaimed experts out there on the internet, um, or in books or on television, I continue to throw Gabor Mate under the bus for this because, and you can stop me if you want, but in my opinion, to say that trauma causes ADHD is just false un- unless it's h- my, the sliver percentage of people that f- suffer a head trauma possibly.
But for the most part, like psychological, you know, emotional trauma, uh, does not cause ADHD.
How, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but how I have learned, and something I'm excited about in the work that I've been doing with this and others, is the more adults, especially parents now, who are being diagnosed and understanding ADHD for themselves and being treated for ADHD, the better parents they're gonna be for their children.
I mean, obviously trauma will unfortunately always exist to some degree, but I think so many people of our generation who perhaps had, if we have ADHD, there's a very high likeliness one or both of our parents did or do as well.
And thus, with their untreated ADHD, that could lead to a fair amount of trauma, whether it's impulsivity, whether it's drinking, addiction.
So the more aware that parents learn about this now, the better parents they're gonna be and the less trauma that's gonna occur in families moving forward.
You know what, I actually m- made a point, 'cause I always like reading somebody rather than, you know, repeating what they say.
And, and reading Gabor Mate's, um, Scattered book, um, he's, he's on the mark with a lot of ADHD stuff, so I want to give that context.
Um, and I, I would say I, I think he might just give more emphasis to, you know, some of those childhood experiences.
It seems like it, it comes from a more maybe, and I, I, I don't want to misresem- misrepresent this, but a more of psychoanalytic bent.
Now, I've read some, um, articles early on, because that's what I do, um, looking at some psychoanalytic approaches for ADHD, and there, there are some interesting things.
That could also be, like when I talk about procrastivity, I'm gonna do something else.
There are these self-proclaimed experts out there on the internet, um, or in books or on television, I continue to throw Gabor Mate under the bus for this because, and you can stop me if you want, but in my opinion, to say that trauma causes ADHD is just false un- unless it's h- my, the sliver percentage of people that f- suffer a head trauma possibly.
But for the most part, like psychological, you know, emotional trauma, uh, does not cause ADHD.
How, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but how I have learned, and something I'm excited about in the work that I've been doing with this and others, is the more adults, especially parents now, who are being diagnosed and understanding ADHD for themselves and being treated for ADHD, the better parents they're gonna be for their children.
I mean, obviously trauma will unfortunately always exist to some degree, but I think so many people of our generation who perhaps had, if we have ADHD, there's a very high likeliness one or both of our parents did or do as well.
And thus, with their untreated ADHD, that could lead to a fair amount of trauma, whether it's impulsivity, whether it's drinking, addiction.
So the more aware that parents learn about this now, the better parents they're gonna be and the less trauma that's gonna occur in families moving forward.
You know what, I actually m- made a point, 'cause I always like reading somebody rather than, you know, repeating what they say.
And, and reading Gabor Mate's, um, Scattered book, um, he's, he's on the mark with a lot of ADHD stuff, so I want to give that context.
Um, and I, I would say I, I think he might just give more emphasis to, you know, some of those childhood experiences.
It seems like it, it comes from a more maybe, and I, I, I don't want to misresem- misrepresent this, but a more of psychoanalytic bent.
Now, I've read some, um, articles early on, because that's what I do, um, looking at some psychoanalytic approaches for ADHD, and there, there are some interesting things.
That could also be, like when I talk about procrastivity, I'm gonna do something else.
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