It's like saying severe anxiety is linked to evolutionary success because anxious people pay more attention to the things around them.
Amazingly, anxiety also decreases greatly when one’s not worried about being unable to care about whatever boring thing is being inflicted upon them this month.
I’m glad I had such things inflicted on me in interest of making me a more well rounded human. But left to my own devices, young me would have escaped to a library every single day and memorized every book on the subjects I liked. If we lived in a placetime where that were a viable option, ADHD vs Education wouldn’t have been such a problem for me.
As much as ADHD is:
> 'It’s the inability to focus on something that’s not interesting'
ADHD is also the inability to stop focusing on something that’s interesting.
Here's an interesting book on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_Sickest_(book)
> In the 21st century we may have pathologized ADHD as a negative disorder, but that could be just because these characteristics simply don’t easily suit the world we have constructed. In a different context, it is possible that someone with ADHD could be a saviour to a tribe by restlessly exploring new pastures.
The inability to focus and lack of memory recall, for example, may either not matter or just be negligible compared to other factors.
While ADHD does lead to focus problems, people with ADHD are usually just as good at focusing as anyone else when their life depends on it.
Scooby?
For those not familiar with the slang, "Scooby" is apparently a response to say one doesn't understand what you're talking about and could use a clue.
However, even a Google search on the typo of "repoructive" was able to reveal what I meant with zero context.
If mild to moderate ADHD offers an advantage in a high mortality setting, the loss of individuals with more extreme symptoms isn't going to make much of a difference in selection pressure. (sickle cell anemia is an extreme example of this)
Even if little Jane ADHD taxes resources more than other group members on the average year, perhaps her unique behavioral traits open the possibility of saving the entire group from starvation during an atypical hunting/foraging year.
And? That could be true...
I do not think anxiety is a disorder, but rather a natural response. It's literally our "fight or flight" mechanism.
I think the disorder part comes from the fact that such mechanisms are being hit constantly for so many people that it causes disorder in one's life. There is no rest for the system, and it's constantly under some sort of strain.
Yes, anxiety might save us from a saber-tooth tiger, but I do not think situations like that were an all-day-every-day kind of occurrence like the things that cause anxiety in today's time.
"Around 450 people participated in the experiment, and all were simultaneously screened for ADHD symptoms. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found those with higher ADHD scores moved on to new bushes sooner than others but more importantly, those with ADHD also tended to collect higher volumes of berries overall."
Two, the test diagnosed half of the participants as having the equivalent of clinical diagnosis of ADHD, when the global diagnosis rate is closer to 5%. Huge red flag.
They used a black box AI tool to diagnose folks. IMO, this was a bad choice for a study.