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I'm a little skeptical, because hunting can be extremely boring. An ADHD hunter would be the guy who gets bored, jumps out of the hiding spot to examine a neat

• eatitraw 8y ago
  > and scares off the approaching deer And that's exactly the way early humans hunted. The method is called persistence hunting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting Humans run slowly, but human bodies can dissipate heat very efficiently through sweating, and this makes humans good long-distance runners. AFAIK, humans can outrun most other animal species. So if I understand it correctly, the hunting method involves scaring your prey, running for a while(yay hyperactivity), using your big brain to figure out where the prey went and running again for a while. Rinse and repeat for many hours, until the prey literally dies from exhaustion. I imagine persistence hunting as a series of puzzles while you literally can see your reward - no delayed gratification involved.
• steve_adams_86 8y ago
  I have ADHD and hunting and fishing are some of the most engaging things I can think of. Spearfishing can keep me focused for an entire day. I also love working on my equipment and researching hunts. This is all boring to everyone I know. I guess the key thing is that ADHD isn't an inability to engage or focus at all - there's a degree of selection involved. For what it's worth, I never hop out to examine rocks. Some people with ADHD might suffer from impulsive distracted behavior like that, but certainly not all.