As somebody who was diagnosed with ADHD in my youth and who has tried various medications, I've reached the point of suspecting that the disease model is just a

As somebody who was diagnosed with ADHD in my youth and who has tried various medications, I've reached the point of suspecting that the disease model is just a poor fit here. Does my brain work differently than other people? Yes. Would this have been a problem for me in any pre-industrial society? (Which, to be clear, is most of human history?) I don't think so. Is it a problem for me when I have a fair bit of control over the work I do? Not really! I only experience it as a problem when I am expected to function in contexts with industrial-age labor models, where there's a hierarchy that expects me to labor like a robot in line with how my betters have decided how the work should be done. So I can entirely believe that authority figures over-use ADHD as a diagnosis so that their lives are easy. Reading through the DSM, it seems to me there are quite a number of diagnoses that could be used as Authority Inconvenience Syndrome. And I don't think I've ever seen one where people might need treatment for being too obedient.