It’s a disorder in our society, because it require you to do task you’ve been ask to do, but if you would just live your life I don’t think you would call it a disorder, more like a different way of processing tasks
Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome.
Madrigal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I like “Executive Function Disorder” as it actually describes the underlying issue and not just the symptoms that other people can see.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Someology@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, in the wild, if you couldn’t concentrate on one thing long enough to hunt/gather/fish, then you wouldn’t eat, and would weed yourself out of the gene pool.
explodicle@local106.com 8 months ago
It’s the other way around - ADHD exists because there’s a bunch of cool stuff worth noticing in nature. Not everyone in the tribe needed to concentrate on fishing.
It’s the same with colorblind people. Just one colorblind person is at a disadvantage, but while hunting they might notice the animal camouflaged for normal color vision. In a tribe, the different perspective is helpful.
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Russell Barkley, the worlds leading expert on ADHD (as far as I can tell) has a video where he shows that this is not likely to be true.
Rather, the continued presence of ADHD in our gene pool has to do with how many factors genetic factors can cause it, and basically the mutation rate causing ADHD is now balanced with the rate that we die off without reproducing.
nyoooom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Except we would be the ones hyperfocusing on making that fucking fire that Steve gave up onto after 2h of trying, or we would stay up late to keep the tribe safe when everyone else starts to fall asleep. A lot of the disfunction is just an incompatibility with our current lifestyle.
myplacedk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
if you would just live your life I don’t think you would call it a disorder, more like a different way of processing tasks
The more I learn about ADHD, the less I see it as a disorder. I see it more as a personality trait. Unfortunately most of our society is based on people not having that personality trait, making it harder to fit in.
On the other hand, if you’re lucky enough to find a lifestyle that fits your personality type, that personality type is actually very helpful, the opposite of a disorder.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
This is what I would vote for if there was a vote on it.
BloodSlut@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The problem is that there are many other mental disorders that have a profound effect on executive function as well
uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I was watching a video from dr berkely and he said its the only disorder that hits all factors of executive function.
Then he said adhd people can’t do digitspan backwards so e went to try it and I was like 😦
DerpyPlayz18@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Just tried it and can’t even get it right forward. Shit.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 8 months ago
What’s a digitspan?
LetKCater2U@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
A test for working memory.
www.memorylosstest.com/digit-span/
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I would be surprised if he said that, because that’s blatantly incorrect:
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/…/full (Table 2, for example).
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder all produce or are associated with executive function impairments that are more severe than ADHD. ADHD is the only one of those with its specific pattern of attentional and reward-related abnormalities, but broad EF deficits are common across forms of psychopathology.
Madrigal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is true, and suggests maybe a broader recategorisation is in order.
I’ve heard one expert suggest that while many disorders feature executive dysfunction, ADHD is executive dysfunction.
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We’ve known that this isn’t true since 2005:
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S000632230500171X
In addition, plenty of other disorders show worse executive function than ADHD:
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/…/full
If executive dysfunction is your primary issue, that is not indicative of ADHD. ADHD is driven by reward processing dysfunction and slower information processing:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/…/1087054714558872
www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01758-0
Note that both poorer information processing and reward processing dysfunction can produce poorer performance on executive function tasks, too.