There’s a history of people identified as “defective” or “disordered” being “weeded out” of society. It has ranged from segregation and isolation to forced sterilization to outright genocide...
Quite a lot of content in this post. The narrative highlights a need to understand that humans are not independent of the environment or ecosystem. That idea should be central to understanding ADHD.
One can see in the history you have described that ADHD has been viewed from a “machine” paradigm. Such thinking tries to view society as a machine that is best managed by replacing the defective machine parts. We know that reality is otherwise but our need to explain and attribute causation and moral values easily gets in the way.
Neuro research into how the “embodied mind” works helps us to understand why humans have predilections towards explanation of causation. Dan Goleman’s book “Focus” has been a go-to for me in this area. His latest book, “Why We Mediate”, co-authored with Tsoknyi Rinpoche adds a useful perspective about how society influences our day to day interactions and may even drive behaviors that we would label as ADHD.
Quite a lot of content in this post. The narrative highlights a need to understand that humans are not independent of the environment or ecosystem. That idea should be central to understanding ADHD.
One can see in the history you have described that ADHD has been viewed from a “machine” paradigm. Such thinking tries to view society as a machine that is best managed by replacing the defective machine parts. We know that reality is otherwise but our need to explain and attribute causation and moral values easily gets in the way.
Neuro research into how the “embodied mind” works helps us to understand why humans have predilections towards explanation of causation. Dan Goleman’s book “Focus” has been a go-to for me in this area. His latest book, “Why We Mediate”, co-authored with Tsoknyi Rinpoche adds a useful perspective about how society influences our day to day interactions and may even drive behaviors that we would label as ADHD.