3 ms·
This rings true. I went to a reasonably well known engineering school, so...some selection for ADHD folks. As someone diagnosed with ADHD young, it was fright
by kjs3 3y ago
This rings true. I went to a reasonably well known engineering school, so...some selection for ADHD folks. As someone diagnosed with ADHD young, it was frightening to see how many of my fellows were 1) clearly struggling with ADHD, and 2) were destructively self-medicating with alcohol (or worse). And it hasn't stopped. Decades later there's still those folks who are hammered at every social function and a good percentage of them I think "yeah...self medicating the noise in their head". I certainly understand the appeal (I'm no tea-totaller), but long-term, booze is a work-around, not a solution.
- cbau 3y ago> This rings true. I went to a reasonably well known engineering school, so...some selection for ADHD folks. Can you expand on this. Do you think think engineering schools select for ADHD? Just curious, haven't heard this before.
- tokamak-teapot 3y agoThe hyperfocus which is a symptom of ADHD helps give the tenacity needed to make progress when faced with frustrating challenges. In engineering, tenacity is absolutely required to make any progress at all, but there are also seemingly infinite threads to pull on. If you’re in hyperfocus mode and you’re working on something, you don’t run out of interesting side tracks or ways to keep digging down through the foundations under what you’re working on.
- Thlom 3y agoI think he means the other way around. Engineering fits for many neuro-divergent people. Especially ADHD and some types of autism.
- kjs3 3y agoYes, this. Sorry I was being a bit flippant and that wasn't clear.