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ADHD may have been an evolutionary advantage
- fithisux 3y agoBut in this society, advantage is related to profit and not evolution.
- novaRom 3y agoIt might be even quite an advantageous trait in our fast changing modern world of LLMs, constant distractions, and uncertainties.
- navjack27 3y agoNo no no no no there is nothing advantageous about this. It's real and actual suffering.
- bell-cot 3y agoThe real & actual suffering is dependent on both the degree of the ADHD, and the person's living situation, no? There are many hereditary traits for which having a "mild case" is (or was) clearly advantageous and adaptive, but having a "severe case" is (or was) not. Genes, mutations, and heredity are wretchedly sloppy optimizers.