Yep, ADD. Makes a person very detail orientated and able to take in a lot of information. Theorized to be very good hunter gatherer traits. But has mental blocks on tasks, especially those done alone and not in a group, puts things messy piles but remembers where nearly everything is, can achieve periods of hyper focus and hyper productivity but can't handle an 8hr work day of the same repetition over and over again. Can give full attention to something interesting, but struggle with mandatory things such as taxes, paperwork, applications, remembering to eat.
The traits are outright self destructive for modern wage slaves and are worse with modern tech designed to distract and reduce your attention span. And the thing is everyone capable of boredom has the traits to some degree, those with stronger expression suffer the most, but with the rise of tiktok and such even those with weaker expressions can be brought into the self destructive add cycle.
Oh, and the biggest kicker. The main drugs to treat it are locked behind doctors, and having to go get it renewed once a month for the rest of their lives.
and I would not be surprised if, when given it as a kid, it alters nuerochemistry enough to make the ADD worse (or potentially causes it. Pharma loves customers for life.)
An actual treatment or cure for it would require something that can cause fundamental chemical changes in the brain (and while some chemicals can cause changes like that from lions mane or psychedelic mushrooms, I don't know if any can specifically effect ADD in any way.)
Yep, ADD. Makes a person very detail orientated and able to take in a lot of information. Theorized to be very good hunter gatherer traits. But has mental blocks on tasks, especially those done alone and not in a group, puts things messy piles but remembers where nearly everything is, can achieve periods of hyper focus and hyper productivity but can't handle an 8hr work day of the same repetition over and over again. Can give full attention to something interesting, but struggle with mandatory things such as taxes, paperwork, applications, remembering to eat.
The traits are outright self destructive for modern wage slaves and are worse with modern tech designed to distract and reduce your attention span. And the thing is everyone capable of boredom has the traits to some degree, those with stronger expression suffer the most, but with the rise of tiktok and such even those with weaker expressions can be brought into the self destructive add cycle.
Oh, and the biggest kicker. The main drugs to treat it are locked behind doctors, and having to go get it renewed once a month for the rest of their lives.
and I would not be surprised if, when given it as a kid, it alters nuerochemistry enough to make the ADD worse (or potentially causes it. Pharma loves customers for life.)
An actual treatment or cure for it would require something that can cause fundamental chemical changes in the brain (and while some chemicals can cause changes like that from lions mane or psychedelic mushrooms, I don't know if any can specifically effect ADD in any way.)