ADHD = Victory

A recent NYT feature reframes ADHD as a different neural architecture, not a disorder or lack of focus, but too much focus, and if you ask today’s high school principals, their students with the so-called condition are “the best.” As someone with unofficial ADHD I’d question the notion that I have too much focus - my playing partners in tennis and paddle often have to tell me “wake up….come back to us Bry,” but I would concede there are times I am zeroed in but don’t even realize it. The article says people with ADHD often notice everything at once, that their so called attention isn’t broken as much as just really fast, non-linear. They see the tennis ball, the cloud, the spider, the car driving up and the vase about to fall. The article is worth a read whether you have ADHD or know someone who does. In our poll of 832 principals, 612 said their ADHD student population tend to be the best students, the most engaged, the best participants, writing the most interesting essays, and the most likely to start a club the school doesn’t have….check out the article, “Have we been thinking about ADHD all wrong?”