Benefits of ADHD
Our society defines ADHD as a disorder, ignoring our essential contributions, and refusing any accommodation to our needs.
- We are inattentive, because we can’t abide boring nonsense, or worse, lies.
- Some of us are hyperactive, always wanting to get on to something interesting and important.
- We won’t do boring, stupid homework or makework in business or government.
Society has traditionally thrown us away as Black Sheep. However,
- Many of us have hyperfocus on what is actually interesting.
- We have much higher than average creativity.
- We have much higher than average empathy.
As George Bernard Shaw (one of us) put it, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
That’s us.
That’s us.
This is something I found at the Forum for Attention Deficit Disorder at About.com. Thank you to Edward Mokurai for giving me permission to share what he wrote here. :-)
“Hi. I’m glad Suswann asked me for permission to post my thoughts here. I and my whole family have ADHD, and wouldn’t give it up for anything. I know that others have much greater difficulties with it than we have, and offer my help to anyone who asks. (That’s one of the “symptoms”.)” ~Edward Mokurai
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