Let me mention that I've got pretty severe ADHD if not outright mild autism and a pretty strong lack of executive functioning. Now - with that in mind, let me

Let me mention that I've got pretty severe ADHD if not outright mild autism and a pretty strong lack of executive functioning. Now - with that in mind, let me respond: >Like physical exercise is meant to help with that. If there's one thing that's invariably true about physical work, is that people adapt to it by pushing the movements down to subconscious, and letting their mind think of something else. You have a great point, and you're not wrong. That said, having done some pretty intense labor myself over the years, sometimes the body is so shot by the end of the day that letting the mind wander is physically difficult, and concentration is easier. >How does that apply to the generation of the parents, though? Or grandparents, to compensate for US having a TV culture some 20-40 years before everyone else? Another great point - and I have a feeling that previous generations were simply called lazy, or dumb, or whatever, because ADHD wasn't really in the educational lexicon until the last of the boomer generation were parents (90s and onward). The generation of parents who had a TV but not a ton else still got plenty of exercise and physical activity. There wasn't engaging content on the TV 24/7 and cell phones weren't a thing, and there was still encouragement to go outside an play. Kids don't do that anymore. >I never liked organized sports, and avoided them (and most PE) since early school, for a very simple reason: I was diagnosed with myopia and wore glasses. I can sympathize, because I had terrible vision problems too (also wore glasses; but also had amblyopia) and being short and skinny didn't help me in most popular team sports. I took up organized sports that didn't require perfect vision, such as tennis (still a team sport but played individually) and swimming (you can count how many strokes it takes you to go from one end of the pool to the other, and try to replicate that). I also ran or did plyometrics frequently. It all helped.