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Carry: I think the impulsivity is an extension of a wandering mind – flitting from one thing to the next like a butterfly.
Geoduck: Yup, I agree, that if undiagnosed, the problem can just snowball. It was pure luck, combined with a tendency to prefer to stay home, that kept me out of serious trouble. Yikes, I once shop-lifted a greeting card entirely by accident, because I forgot I was holding it – and then when I got outside the store, I was so scared, I just kept going.
I think people have trouble accepting that ADHD is “real” because it threatens their concept of free will. Yes, we can all make choices, but if you only have one leg, and you don’t have a prosthetic, your choice to climb three flights of stairs will take longer and be more challenging and potentially dangerous than for someone with two legs. People can’t “see” ADHD, so they don’t believe it’s there. We can have free will within a narrower range of options.
I’m sure there are many people in the prison system who would have had much different lives if the entire criminal justice system in relation to many aspects of the broader societal context were not so Dark Ages. We’re just animals. People don’t want to look at the science. While humanity is capable of greatness, if you look at history, the things people thought about throughout time…we haven’t changed much in thousands upon thousands of years. Human behavior in general takes up a pretty limited spectrum of possibility.
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