If you want a brilliant and lovely person to listen to about the facts of ADHD, look up Dr Russell Barkley. That factoid is a myth: the difference is that ADHD

If you want a brilliant and lovely person to listen to about the facts of ADHD, look up Dr Russell Barkley. That factoid is a myth: the difference is that ADHD meds provide those with ADHD the focus needed to function in modern society, and without it they do not function. There's a theory to do with dopamine regulation and the COMT gene which I don't claim to understand. A generalisation might be 'this gives me dopamine in a pill, so I don't disrupt my environment/chase random thoughts for my dopamine'.