Culture - I don't believe in ADHD.

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I don't think ADHD is a genuine disorder. While many people think that not being able to spend hour upon hour of everyday reading textbooks, or writing essays, or doing desk work of some sort means that someone has a deficit in attention, I think being able to do that without a problem is insanity.

Compulsory school is only about a century old or so, and the explosion in numbers of jobs in the office, or other nonphysical labour is also new. Even writing is only a few thousand years old. And for the 2 million or so years before the dawn of civilization, people did little more work than what was necessary to feed and shelter themselves(which was a lot less work than what we do today, and was a physical activity, unlike sitting at a desk for 8 hours). Only recently, our society has become so demanding of us that we need to take speed pills just to keep up.

Maybe ADHD isn't an inability to perform at a normal level, but society is simply demanding too much of us, and we need to slow down? Maybe institutionalization at very young ages(school), and the constant bombardment of stimuli(weather it be TV, videogames, cellphones, ect) has atrophied our mentality, making it more difficult to slow down and focus, when everything around us is so fast?

I can't be the only that feels this way. Or maybe I'm wrong and I'm just lazy and stupid. God forbid I stop occupying myself with the desire for material goods(that fuel the desire for work, or higher education to get a better paying job) long enough to realize that there's more to life than, work -> TV -> sleep -> repeat.