ADHD is highly UNDER-diagnosed. > Bottom line, if everyone needs to be on medication in order to be productive in a society then it's the society that has the

ADHD is highly UNDER-diagnosed. > Bottom line, if everyone needs to be on medication in order to be productive in a society then it's the society that has the disorder not the individuals. A huge percentage of the population aren't even suspected of having ADHD, because they clearly don't. This has become a silly trope, but it doesn't match reality for people with the disorder. It's a far cry from "everyone". There's a very specific cluster of behaviors that may get better or worse over time, but rarely go away. Our obsession with academic achievement is harder than it seems to address. It will require a fundamental change in society, like capitalism or communism. Even if you get rid of the academic component, it will simply be replaced with some other filter (smokescreen for the elite?), with some unable to keep up. We need it so that people can live doing pretty much nothing that generates profit. The system doesn't support large numbers of people here, and they often don't do very well, either. Some things could help and we should do. It seems that we don't really value academic performance. We want a high stakes game to decide who gets to be rich and poor. This fundamentally would need to change, and I don't see an end in sight. We need ladders and nets, and to support careers that don't follow the high_school -> university -> career -> retirement, with no room for interruption. I recall a real sad comment on reddit about someone that wound up depressed very recently in high school. What he described was the grind of classwork, fitness, and chores that seemed impossible to bear. Get home from a run, try to force your brain to study, then immediately sleep... and for what? You do this forever, now!