I’m starting to think of it as just one of the many underlying pieces that make people different, and drive people different ways. Like how people with glasses

I’m starting to think of it as just one of the many underlying pieces that make people different, and drive people different ways. Like how people with glasses actually are on average smarter. Or like how kids of older parents are more studious. I’ve variously read ADHD’s overrepresented in the sciences and immigrants, and shown to be adaptive in hunter gatherer groups but maladaptive in neighboring farming groups. Everybody struggles. Typical people have different struggles. I’m not saying ADHD is equivalent, or easy, but it will invisibly bias people in a different direction with a different set of things that are easy. After all, as far as I understand, we believe the root is simply lower levels of dopamine which tunes you for discontent, alertness, loss aversion, disagreeableness, and so on. It makes it hard to be happy, but genes don’t care. I rankle at the thought that genes could be quietly setting people up to be suited for different roles, but again genes don’t care.