This tracks. It occurs to me that the Ds in AD(H)D and other diagnoses are predicated on a common assumption; that of environment. It's not a 'disorder' or 'd

This tracks. It occurs to me that the Ds in AD(H)D and other diagnoses are predicated on a common assumption; that of environment. It's not a 'disorder' or 'deficit' if it's adaptive - it's just that for a lot of what we do (schooling, taxes, paperwork, labour) a tendency to lose focus on uninteresting BS is maladapted. (can you guess whether I have a diagnosis myself?) Notably, I've found that with certain tasks, I excel due to my drive to constantly "move on". Some stages of software drafting benefit greatly from a habit of voraciously searching out multiple solutions (so you can assess which works best before comitting). Now, it's true that unmedicated I'd likely finish very few projects, but combining the two modalities has yielded many positive results. I wonder how many other "Disorders" have positive adaptations to modern life, and whether we could perhaps provide alternative educational paths to better leverage them. Anectodally, more than a few of the people I know who have been very successful in places that require social interaction (team leads, coordinators, sales) have been diagnosed Bipolar. Had I gotten a better education on how to properly use and manage the benefits and costs of my ADHD early on, I'm pretty sure I could have been contributing better to society a lot earlier. Makes me wonder how many folks are out there that just never stumbled on the answers.