I assume this community will disagree strongly, but ADHD honestly does not seem like an actual disorder…
Not fitting into Capitalism has nothing to do with common ADHD traits such as lack of emotional regulation, time blindness, and our tendency towards risky behaviors.
So yeah, I do strongly disagree with your attempt to blame the negative aspects of ADHD on an economic system…because it’s bullshit.
I could be anything from an Mesopotamian King to a rider in the Mongol horde to a Medieval Peasant and my brain would still have the same damn problems.
Not fitting into Capitalism has nothing to do with common ADHD traits such as lack of emotional regulation, time blindness, and our tendency towards risky behaviors.
All of those traits generally make you a less predictable and harder to manage worker. Capitalism absolutely cares about those traits very significantly.
I could be anything from an Mesopotamian King to a rider in the Mongol horde to a Medieval Peasant and my brain would still have the same damn problems.
This is literally impossible to say. Your brain would still work similarly, but it would have been shaped by entirely different stimuli and environment, so it would not be working the same. It’s also entirely possible that those tendencies are beneficial in different historical contexts. Other systems like feudalism may also similarly view ADHD as a detriment, but that doesn’t mean that every system / context does.
Or the ever popular extension of that: I’ve not done it so long that I’m insanely uncomfortable about it and will actively avoid the space in which it is in and do other things (read: nothing) while obsessing about the thing you need to do and the fact that you haven’t done it until you nearly have a nervous breakdown
Putting off yardwork untill your lawnmower can no longer handle the density of plant matter. And then just calling the area a wild flower field, or pollinator haven or some other excuse for just not touching it.
Not fitting into Capitalism has nothing to do with common ADHD traits such as lack of emotional regulation, time blindness, and our tendency towards risky behaviors.
So yeah, I do strongly disagree with your attempt to blame the negative aspects of ADHD on an economic system…because it’s bullshit.
I could be anything from an Mesopotamian King to a rider in the Mongol horde to a Medieval Peasant and my brain would still have the same damn problems.
All of those traits generally make you a less predictable and harder to manage worker. Capitalism absolutely cares about those traits very significantly.
This is literally impossible to say. Your brain would still work similarly, but it would have been shaped by entirely different stimuli and environment, so it would not be working the same. It’s also entirely possible that those tendencies are beneficial in different historical contexts. Other systems like feudalism may also similarly view ADHD as a detriment, but that doesn’t mean that every system / context does.
Person above you likely has never experienced executive disfunction.
I need to do this, I actually want to do this, why am I not doing this?
Or the ever popular extension of that: I’ve not done it so long that I’m insanely uncomfortable about it and will actively avoid the space in which it is in and do other things (read: nothing) while obsessing about the thing you need to do and the fact that you haven’t done it until you nearly have a nervous breakdown
The task: laundry, dishes, sweeping, etc
Putting off yardwork untill your lawnmower can no longer handle the density of plant matter. And then just calling the area a wild flower field, or pollinator haven or some other excuse for just not touching it.