She would eat certain foods and have a panic attack more than a third of the time. Those are the sorts of patterns I notice that other people dismiss (or in this case deny)

The problem with “disorders” like ADHD that affect up to 10% of the population is that it’s really easy to find enough people with some other disorder to convince yourself that certain symptoms apply to a large part of the demographic. I have no doubt that there are ADHD people who are activated by vagus nerve activation (eg, irregular heartbeat or intestinal distress) but I doubt very much that it’s universal.

- a generic form of one sentence in the paper is "X could affect Y"

- you can replace X with Z and still form a sentence.

- so the study writers / link sharer are simply farming for HN karma?