i think it depends how much adhd you have, what would be more practical would be to see if adhd traits are more frequently found in certain professions. As long as you can make money in a neoliberal economy you can pay for things to cover up your weaknesses.
I really like Russel Barkley's no-nonsense approach and very much agree with it. The bell-curve approach to ADHD and Autism is also very good as it accounts for both the dimensional and categorical aspects of both conditions. I can understand why on a very superficial level people might have advanced an argument that certain characteristics of ADHD might have been adaptive in prehistoric times, but what always struck me with those arguments was that they focused on single characteristics - such as distractibility or impulsivity, which in isolation might have been adaptive in certain very limited circumstances. But ADHD is made up of a number of characteristics which together - at levels that cause clinically significant impairment - define the condition and could never have been adaptive. I'm a great admirer of the native Piraha people of the amazon rainforest, who have a hunting and foraging lifestyle. Reading about them makes it so clear to me that I would never function in their society anymore than I can in our own post-industrial one. Yes the range of difficulties would be different, but I would still be impaired.
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i think it depends how much adhd you have, what would be more practical would be to see if adhd traits are more frequently found in certain professions. As long as you can make money in a neoliberal economy you can pay for things to cover up your weaknesses.
I really like Russel Barkley's no-nonsense approach and very much agree with it. The bell-curve approach to ADHD and Autism is also very good as it accounts for both the dimensional and categorical aspects of both conditions.
I can understand why on a very superficial level people might have advanced an argument that certain characteristics of ADHD might have been adaptive in prehistoric times, but what always struck me with those arguments was that they focused on single characteristics - such as distractibility or impulsivity, which in isolation might have been adaptive in certain very limited circumstances. But ADHD is made up of a number of characteristics which together - at levels that cause clinically significant impairment - define the condition and could never have been adaptive.
I'm a great admirer of the native Piraha people of the amazon rainforest, who have a hunting and foraging lifestyle. Reading about them makes it so clear to me that I would never function in their society anymore than I can in our own post-industrial one. Yes the range of difficulties would be different, but I would still be impaired.