Re: Hyperfocus vs. Perseverance?

[Anonymous]

@toofat, I agree. “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” I’m gonna keep saying that until people stop trusting everything experts say inherently.

You just hinted at another advantage ADD provides society: we question everything. It drives people nuts, but there’s no progress without people challenging the status quo. George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man.”

@Geoduck and gameguy: I’m not sure I agree that ADHD has to be a spectrum disorder. There could simply be 3 types: inattentive, hyperactive and combined. And everyone with ADHD falls into one of those 3 buckets. With all their other assets and issues the symptoms may appear different (more or less severe).

I’m not a proponent one way or the other, but it irks me when people say someone’s ADHD is less severe. We don’t know until we walk a mile in their shoes, and Dr. Barkley hasn’t set foot in mine.

The other thing that really tweaks me off is that here is a guy who says that there is no scientific study that shows any positive benefit to ADHD (put another way, there has been no proof one way or the other), and then assumes (angrily) that people with ADHD who report a positive benefit are wrong or delusional. Just because we (sometimes) behave in a way that mimics or is similar to those with frontal lobe injuries does not mean (1) we have a frontal lobe injury or that we’re damaged or defective in some way; (2) that’s the same or only thing going on with us; or (3) that there is nothing positive about ADHD.

If you clap your hands behind a deaf dog he won’t jump. If you clap your hands behind a dog with no legs, he won’t jump either. That doesn’t mean the legless dog is deaf.

Why not just throw us all in the lake and see if we float.

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