Certainly I don't think this is describing clinical bipolar disorder. It's recognizable as pop-culture bipolarity, much like pop-culture OCD is more likely germ

Certainly I don't think this is describing clinical bipolar disorder. It's recognizable as pop-culture bipolarity, much like pop-culture OCD is more likely germaphobia or anxiety than clinical OCD. The idea is recognizable, but it's inconvenient that there's so much gap between cultural and medical 'diagnoses'. But... yes, ADHD, or something similar enough that it's often diagnosed as such. I've known a lot of these people, I've been one of these people, and any time they brush up against psychiatry the usual result is ADD/ADHD. Without speaking to the question of medication, it's something I see a lot and something I think we badly fail to handle in existing public education.