If It Weren’t For Add, We Might Not Have The Theory Of Relativity
Were you a question machine when you were a kid? How come dogs can poop outside, but you won’t let me? Why do raspberries have seeds? How do you know for sure that Santa Claus is watching me every single day? Doesn’t he have more important things to do?
If you were lucky, your parents made up some kind of answer, if they didn’t know it already. But, more often than not, kids that ask a lot of questions are told to keep still. If you have ADD, this was probably you, and it probably made you feel weird because people just got so exasperated with all your questions.
I know I was just determined to figure out how things work–everything. My brain wouldn’t rest until I knew why things are the way they are.
With many kids, ADD doesn’t just go away when they grow up. So, ADD adults are still asking questions, wondering about everything from their job to their baby’s development. The whole thing about that is that our questions make other people uncomfortable. When we ask a whole bunch of questions, it just throws them off track. But we see things...