'My work for the last decade suggests that we have been missing something important about the fundamental nature of the ADHD brain. My goal was to look for the feature that everyone with ADHD has, and that neurotypical people don’t have. I found it.'
Attention deficit disorder is a confusing, contradictory, inconsistent, and frustrating condition. It is overwhelming to people who live with it every day. The diagnostic criteria that have been used for the last 40 years leave many people wondering whether they have the condition or not. Diagnosticians have long lists of symptoms to sort through and check off. Thehas 18 criteria, and other symptom lists cite as many as 100 traits.
The vast majority of adults with an ADHD nervous system are not overtly hyperactive. They are hyperactive internally. ADHD individuals also get in the zone when they are challenged or thrown into a competitive environment. Sometimes a new or novel task attracts their attention. Novelty is short-lived, though, and everything gets old after a while.
The inability to use importance and rewards to get motivated has a lifelong impact on the lives of individuals with ADHD: People with ADHD do not flourish in the standard job that pays people to work on what someone else thinks is important.out there is built on two things — prioritization and time management — that individuals with ADHD do not do well.
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