This video seeks to answer the question, if the symptoms of ADHD are signs of a medical disorder, why are they still in the gene pool after hundreds of thousands of years? Why weren’t they selected out (e.g. if the ADHD genes made it difficult for prehistoric humans to adapt to their environment, they would...Read More

This is video #18 in my series introducing my book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video I provide some guidelines for people with ADHD on choosing careers that maximize their strengths, and minimize their difficulties. After listing the 9 to 5...Read More

In this video, I suggest that it is quite important for us to emphasize the strengths of people with ADHD, because the label itself has three negatives in it (deficit-hyperactivity-disorder). There’s an evolutionary advantage to ADHD in that their hyperactivity, for example, was important for surviving in hunting raids on the plains (and are still...Read More

This is the sixteenth video in my series introducing my new book The Power of Neurodiversity.  In this video, I give a short history of ADHD, noting terms that were employed in the past (such as hyperkinesis, and minimal brain dysfunction), and then using a timeline to chart the growth of ADHD from a 1971...Read More

In this video (#15 in my series introducing my new book The Power of Neurodiversity), I describe several apps that can help people with autism work around obstacles and master skills to make their lives easier and more fulfilling. They include a habit-tracker app, two relaxation apps (Calm and Colorfy), a social stories app (to...Read More