I wish I could downvote.
Just because you can't see a disease doesn't remove it.
You don't tell a cancer patient to just get up and exercise.
Just because you can't see a disease doesn't remove it.
You don't tell a cancer patient to just get up and exercise.
It's just that so many here on HN and elsewhere think they need medicines because they have problems to focus at work or in school or while reading a book.
On a slightly different note, focus and concentration is maybe not the ideal state either. Maybe creativity (new ideas, new angles, new thoughts) will be affected which in turn reduces performance and results. As others have mentioned here is that when they take medicines they sometimes get stuck focusing on the wrong things. And even if the focus on the right thing, maybe they get stuck on the problem at hand because they do not get new influences.
Aren't persons with true ADHD often quite creative?
Do not ascribe talents people have to their disabilities.
Besides, it's just a stereotype and doesn't hold for everyone with ADHD.
Anyway, it seems much more likely that there would be a causative link between ADHD and creativity- e.g. some common underlying factor that boosts the explore tendency in explore/exploit along with openness to experience. A brain that naturally roams more could be expected to produce more novel syntheses.
Anyway, ADHD is comorbid with plenty of other disorders that are limiting on creativity such as anxiety, low self esteem, inhibited decision making, that it’s definitely not a given.