Kian Caplan - Living with OCD, ADHD, and Tourette Syndrome

Kian Caplan was bullied as a child. He couldn’t control the sounds or movements he made, and his peers ridiculed him for being different. As a teenager, Kian was diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, and Tourette syndrome. Today, he is a McGovern neuroscientist on a quest to understand what makes his brain different - and to recruit other neurodiverse students to study the brain.

[@the0thermother]

I have Tourettes, OCD, ADHD, CPTDS, Anxiety, and FND. (Functional neurological disorder, caused by a TBI when I was 2). I was diagnosed with nothing but a brain lesion, dyslexia, and anxiety. I lived masked, misserable, and hardly surviving until I was diagnosed in my 40's. Children in the 70's were forgotten and undiagnosed. We are the "You'd better get over it before I get my belt" generation. I'm glad to see the conversations and accesses to mental health support and understanding now, and only wish they were avaiable sooner. I know we are far from great, but we are worlds better than where we started when I was a child.

[@issammaine1349]

I think ADHD makes one vulnerable to mistreatment by their environment (bullying, harsh criticism, parental abuse, etc) which causes trauma which itself leads to OCD as a coping mechanism; as a way to balance their behavior (being careless, and impulsive, etc) they end up adopting the opposite behaviors (such as starting to overthink, to balance their impulsivity) to become "well-behaved" and meet the expectations and thus stopping the unpleasant criticism.
example: I would open and close the door multiple times until it "feels right" because subconsciously I know that I'm carless and don't make things right from the first time (due to ADHD), and reason that if I do them multiple times I would probably end up doing it "properly", and the satisfaction that comes from it when it "feels right", is just my brain rewarding me for adopting the new behavior that it thinks would avoid me criticism. it becomes subconscious and no longer about a thing that I'm "bad at", thus I end up applying it to even opening and closing doors to sustain it.
I'm just drafting my thinking here, if you're an expert and think this is reasonable, please get in touch, and maybe we can crack this ;)
email: [e-mail]

[@MarkiplierOfficial]

That’s a really valid and absolutely possible concept you’ve introspected to explain your own patterns of behavior and it’s completely reasonable. Everyone kind of has different explanations for why they are the way they are and I haven’t come across many instances of people being as hyper aware (at least in this aspect) about their own behavior and what they believe causes it/is the root of it as you are, which is a step in the right direction to receive help for it (if that’s what you desire)

[@issammaine1349]

@@MarkiplierOfficial Your observations are appreciated.

[@KB-tu4zw]

After 3 decades of treatment for anxiety and depression, I found out through therapy and having a child with adhd that I have adhd. I try different stimulants and did notice that the monologue that pretty well takes over was in the background more. Then, it was like whack a mole treating each thing. I just couldn’t let go of questioning my diagnosis. I thought my daughter got adhd from her dad although she was diagnosed with my type. Well, I get frustrated because the stimulants were not doing what I thought they were suppose to do and I couldn’t keep from questioning my diagnosis. I never stopped thinking about. All my family was extremely neat and organized except me. I researched and researched always thinking about it. Then I start questioning my OCD mom. She was never diagnosed with it but she’s well known for her organization to perfection, cleaning constantly and having to have all the patterns lined up etc. She regularly uses tooth brushes to clean things etc. Well, in speaking to my also neat brothers, two of them actually do OCD things like when he walks by a light switch he has to turn it off and on or he thinks if he doesn’t something bad would happen. Rechecking doors, has to push off button 5 times on stove then turn around do it again to make sure etc etc. I get with my doc this last time and I told him the stimulants not doing what I expected and I feel like my messy disorganization is worse. I kept asking why is it only me this way in my family. Then got into the CYPD26, default network etc etc etc. I had been researching my meds and all this like crazy. Then I said for the love of God can you tell me why I type an email spend hours on it, delete retype, delete retype the same thing I do with texts too and so often I will just get so frustrated I won’t send it. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. This would drive my husband nuts. My doc said that describes OCD to a T and I was like but I don’t do the things they do like rechecking and switching light switches off a on. He said no you have more the Obsessive part of OCD where they display the compulsive part more. I had been ruminating over this diagnosis so long and I think the stimulants were making it worse. Now, I have ADHD, OCD, Anxiety and Depression. At least I don’t feel like a outcast from the family.

[@myfootball11inhindi73]

I suffered alot with ticks and just realised i have same issues like you have can't sit on a place, cant stand still irge to move body etc

[@ChildrensRightsFirst947]

I have adhd and ocd and one reason I won't be having kids is because I don't want to pass on what I've had to live through and still go through. If society was more functional things would be easier on us, but it gets hard even for neurotypical people.

[@Zadotye]

I plan on breaking da cycle, i gotta master codin, n ima use this adhd curse/gift shit the universe bestowed upon me
to save us adhd mfs, from the normal mfs (i refer to others as the normals)