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i don't buy this argument by hallowell for a second, and here's why: jobs don't need creativity in the quantities that adhd people muster by default. they need
by cryoshon 9y ago
i don't buy this argument by hallowell for a second, and here's why:
jobs don't need creativity in the quantities that adhd people muster by default. they need, let's say, 5 units of creativity, not 50000 -- that many leads to being outside of the room when the job only requires you to be near the edge of a box in the room.
thinking "outside the box" is a hindrance. most people can't get on your level, and you can't bring yourself to where your thoughts really make sense to them. the point is that with adhd, it isn't a choice to make. they can't control whether to be inside the box, outside the box, or even in the same building as the (conceptual) box.
if it were a choice to make, it'd just be an advantage.
- wpietri 9y agoThis strikes me as an over-broad picture of both jobs and ADHD. In practice there's great variation in both the amount of creativity that jobs need and in the ability of people with ADHD to present as normal when needed. I'd be especially curious as to the data behind your sweeping statement that "they can't control whether to be inside the box, outside the box, or even in the same building as the (conceptual) box". That's not my experience, now how the people with ADHD I know behave, and it's not what the ADHD literature I'm familiar with says. I'm sure it's true about somebody, but I strongly doubt it's close to everybody.
- cryoshon 9y agoeasy: attentional control and mindset control are executive functions. ADHD is an extreme deficit of executive functions. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-19094-002 http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-19094-002