RE: ADD/ADHD Problems and Tech Writing/Editing Careers

["technicoid" <technicoid -at- cableone -dot- net>]

>I love what people have written about ADD being not a disorder but a
set of better 
>and different abilities. I have to admit that i have tended to think
that ADD is 
>getting a little overused in our culture. Not so much overdiagnosed,
but just used 
>as a thoughtless shorthand for short attention span. This thread makes
me realize 
>what it really means.

A colleague of my father's (both psychiatrists) posed the idea to me
that obsessive behavior was probably really useful to people living in
northern climes who had to be prepared in October for things that might
happen in February (in the depth of winter when resources weren't
readily accessible). Don't know how much merit the idea holds, but it
does make a bit of sense.

Bill 
technicoid -at- cableone -dot- net



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