It's not a disease, it's a disorder. Big difference. One is a cause, the other (edited) is a collection of symptoms with unclear origin, but which happen togeth

It's not a disease, it's a disorder. Big difference. One is a cause, the other (edited) is a collection of symptoms with unclear origin, but which happen together enough to be their own thing. It's pretty likely different people acquire dysfunction from different circumstances, whether traumatic, epigenetic, genetic, or whatever else interacts with brain development. But to your point, and without going into a bunch of personal info, I doubt it. There were plenty of issues and deficits that I can't imagine being appropriate in any setting. Moreover, ADHD has been acknowledged for a long, long time. The term is modern, but the disorder is not. It was minimal brain damage, IIRC, prior to ADHD, and had a bunch of increasingly archaic terms as you go back. You have to understand, the popular view of ADHD--stereotypical hyperactivity and scatterbrained behavior--yeah, those are part of it, but they're not the whole. The cluster of symptoms mimics prefrontal cortex damage. Executive function is responsible for a whole lot of stuff. If you're willing to acknowledge that mental disability exists in general, and that there's a line where we say, OK, that person is impaired, then it's not a huge jump to understand that it can exist in specific physical areas too. When it affects executive function to whatever degree you're going to draw that line, that's ADHD.