# Awareness /education /information sharing on neurodivergent conditions

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**Created:** [August 16, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://a-lilian-garden.discourse.group/t/awareness-education-information-sharing-on-neurodivergent-conditions/4447 "2026-08-16T17:24:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![maushen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/a-lilian-garden.discourse.group/maushen/32/56995_2.png) [@maushen](https://a-lilian-garden.discourse.group/u/maushen)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://a-lilian-garden.discourse.group/t/awareness-education-information-sharing-on-neurodivergent-conditions/4447/1 "2026-08-16T17:24:51Z")

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This thread is about information sharing /awareness, partially because the topic affects others /me and i think it can be helpful, but also largely because this is really interesting to me, especially the more dry /scientific side of things.

It can be easier for me to absorb information that is more densely packed /presented more objectively because it's more interesting to me that way but it's probably different /not the same for others and it could seem rude /disheartening for the information to be presented that way, so if someone wants to share the same information through a different perspective or form of media please don't worry about things like reposting /repeating information and go ahead.

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**Author:** ![maushen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/a-lilian-garden.discourse.group/maushen/32/56995_2.png) [@maushen](https://a-lilian-garden.discourse.group/u/maushen)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://a-lilian-garden.discourse.group/t/awareness-education-information-sharing-on-neurodivergent-conditions/4447/2 "2026-08-16T18:20:24Z")

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[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/uploads/a_lilian_garden/original/3X/9/4/94c463cdc7f7f7be05925fc13e6a84927c1204e2.jpeg "The Other Attention Disorder: Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (CDS) - Part I: History & Symptoms") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQDuF-MKBDI)

_Since 1798, the medical literature on attention disorders has distinguished between at least two kinds, one a disorder of distractibility, lack of sustained attention, and poor inhibition and the other a disorder of low power, arousal, or focus. This second disorder has been largely ignored for nearly two centuries until the mid-1980s when studies of children having ADD without Hyperactivity suggested that an important subset had a relatively distinct pattern of symptoms not central to ADHD. These symptoms included daydreaming, mental fogginess and confusion, staring, slow processing of information, hypoactivity, slow movement, and lethargy, among others._  
(Taken from the description of the above video)

Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (CDS) has a lot of overlap and a high comorbidity rate with ADHD.

The videos in this series following the first one are useful for differentiating between CDS /ADHD and they highlight the differences, the first one focuses on CDS.