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

In 1993, ADHD advocate Thom Hartmann wrote that people diagnosed with ADHD are ”hunters in a farmer’s world.” In this video, I continue his train of thought by focusing on how ADHD may best be represented as a genetic adaptation to conditions during prehistoric times. The video describes Darwin’s theory of natural selection and examines...Read More