Another thought about ADD/ADHD in the olden days. I'm inclined to doubt that these traits could have been a serious handicap in earlier times if we didn't real

Another thought about ADD/ADHD in the olden days. I'm inclined to doubt that these traits could have been a serious handicap in earlier times if we didn't really notice this as a template of behavior until recently. People have talked about other kinds of mental disorders, not necessarily using modern names, for a long time. I don't know of any anachronistic terms that mean the same thing as what we mean by ADHD today, or older sources that made much recognition of ADHD symptoms at all. Happy to be corrected here.