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The ADHD Discovery Buried in a Footnote
The largest review of ADHD treatments ever conducted confirmed that medication works in the short term—but quietly found that one overlooked practice…
Mar 26
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We're Medicating Four-Year-Old Hunters Before We Even Know Who They Are
I want to talk about the four-year-old, because the four-year-old is the one who can’t speak for himself in any of this.
Mar 19
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Hunters Don’t Have an Attention Deficit - They Have a Different Reward-Calibration System
They’ve Been Wrong About ADHD Meds for Thirty Years. What They Just Found Changes Everything.
Mar 12
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ADHD: Will Kids in a Hunter Household Do the Laundry?
Martha though not, and then she did something that I thought was both unthinkable and impossible...
Mar 5
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February 2026
Why It's Important to Know that ADHD has Deep Evolutionary & Ecological Roots
How challenging the ADHD norms didn't just threaten an idea; it threatened a hierarchy.
Feb 26
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ADHD: Is Efficiency Always Good and Impulsivity Always Bad?
"I didn’t build my life by being efficient. I built it by being willing to explore when efficiency no longer made sense."
Feb 19
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Mismatch
We don’t all need to become Hunters. But we desperately need to stop pretending that Farmer logic is the only adult way to be human.
Feb 12
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Why Hunter Brains Thrive in Crisis and Collapse in Routine
The question is whether our society is willing to listen to it, or keep insisting us Hunters should be someone else
Feb 5
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January 2026
ADHD: The Lie of “Just Try Harder”
Hunters don’t need to try harder. They’ve already tried harder than most people ever will. What they need is truth.
Jan 29
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Attention Is Not a Moral Skill—and Never Was
Why People With Hunter-Style Attention Were Labeled “Lazy” in Systems That Don’t Match How Their Brains Work
Jan 22
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Why Hunter Minds Burn Out in Farmer Systems
When Hunters stop trying to become Farmers, their nervous systems finally get permission to stand down. And that’s when life starts to make sense agai
Jan 15
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New Study Says ADHD Isn’t Just About Attention: It’s Also About Timing & Rhythm,
What makes this study particularly interesting is that it pushes back against the idea that sleep problems in ADHD are merely secondary.
Jan 8
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