ADHD likey helped us in the wild , but hinders us in a society that needs to eek out every bit of cognitive ability to be harnessed by a very rigid system that is very opinionated about how we can contribute. Back then there was probably less incentive to deny your natural affinities instead of something more lucrative. As an ADHD’r I see something familiar in the journals of Davinci, but also in the eyes of the gold rush 49ers.

Also because we are more beholden to the intrusive inclinations of our natural body signals something like a bought of famine might be more traumatizing for an ADHD’r back when trauma was still a valuable survival technique.