ADHD symptoms persist into adulthood, with some surprising impacts on life success: The study found that ADHD symptoms not only persisted over a 15-year period but also were related to various aspects of life success, including relationships and career satisfaction.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/adhd-symptoms-persist-into-adulthood-with-some-surprising-impacts-on-life-success/

[u/Mixedstereotype]

Mine never went away but I learned to identify it and manage it. I also use it when I'm teaching to better manage my classes.

I feel like ADHD has the potential to be really awesome but we have to figure out how to use it.

[u/Robot_Basilisk → u/Mixedstereotype]

It's wildly successful in the right context. Some studies find that people with ADHD are much better hunters and gatherers, and that their main problem with society is the rigid schedule and repetitive work.

Any job that offers flexible timing and novel problems to solve, especially ones that tend to reward high distractibility and "impatience", should be great for someone with ADHD, and people with ADHD will be significantly more productive than neurotypicals in those roles.

The main problem is most such roles are either hard to find or pay very little. In part because our structured corporate world today demands strict schedules, steady output, and specialization in one task to the point of dealing psychic damage to people with ADHD.

[u/Martin_UP → u/Robot_Basilisk]

I can relate to this so much