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A casual community for people with ADHD

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ADHD: Bad for us, but a boon for our ancestors? (www.dw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I doubt that. I recon they were more likely to be the trial and error that others could learn from. Like the poisoned partner effect in rats for example. Most rats will avoid eating strange foods, but there will always be one who snacks on something without care. If it's poisonous, he'll get sick or die. The other rats keep track of what "that guy" ate and avoid the poison berries. This is why rat poison only shows sings after days have passed, after which it kills. It's so that the rats deem the poison safe to eat before it has an effect on them.

Recon ADHD is our poison eating "that guy."

Innovation takes skill and time to hone. The brittish museum has a lot of stone tools. Take the Jade Axe for example. It took days of working and polishing to make it so smooth and perfect. That ain't ADHD work. It would have taken a longer time than a few days of hyperfocus to become that skilled a stone worker in the first place. Let alone then repeat the craft enough to make the damn thing. At best, an ADHDer would have an idea, and someone else would make it a reality.

[–] nieceandtows 2 points 8 months ago

You're underestimating the ADHD hyper focus duration. As long as the problem is interesting, ADHD people can hyper focus on one problem and only that problem for days/weeks at a time until they solve it, or the problem gets boring, or they find a different shiny thing. Creating/inventing a jade stone tool is exciting. You can spend days trying to make it just perfect, finding ways to sharpen it that others don't know; that's an ADHD person's cup of tea. However once you make the first tool, it's no longer interesting. You move on to hyper focus on something else.