Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a condition that affects people’s behaviour. People with ADHD can seem restless, may have trouble concentrating and may act on impulse.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a condition that affects people’s behaviour. People with ADHD can seem restless, may have trouble concentrating and may act on impulse.
In my understanding, ADHD is a developemental disorder, sort of like autism or various forms of retardation. This causes extreme interest in certain things and disintrest in others. I have read various theories on the subject of ADHD in a population and one that stuck out to me was it was a hunting adaption. I am really quite skilles in coordination and perception of my body since childhood I have not yet met a person like me. ADHD has some serious drawbacks though for social life, I am highly sensitive to overstimulation, I often am bad at understanding other’s pain because I see pain as proof that you need to grow or have made a mistake and when I take my medication I have 0 emotions. These are all hurdels that a child will need to learn how to overcome to function in society. I do not have a neurotypical brain, but through observation I have noticed some fundamental conceptual and mental methodological differences between myself and a neurotypical.
Adhd is a disorder that has to do with the way our brains filter things out. Human brains take in so much as once that we can’t process it all, to help we have a filter that deems what is important and what isn’t. When you walk in to a room your brain has about milliseconds to process every detail in the room so you can understand it. You filter would take the sound of someone say tapping a pencil or tying their hair up as non-important and places it in the background category, putting more pressing matter up front like let’s say a paper airplane flying at you. You can focus on the paper airplane ahead rather than getting hit by all three at once and not being able to sort it.