Other ways of looking at the ADHD brain:

One writer used the analogy of brains being  of two basic kinds: the Hunter brain and the Farmer brain. My take on these brains is they are neither inferior nor superior to each other, have always been necessary, and are at least in part the result of thousands of years of cultural specialization.

The Hunter's brain, to put it simply, is easily distracted by outside sound and movement, enjoys variation and is easily bored by repetition, learns by watching and doing, and can remain active for hours if not days. It loves to try its own unique solutions to problems or tasks, becomes frustrated when their focus on what interests them is interrupted, and reacts without thinking when necessary. These are pretty good traits to have when your life or livelihood depends on finding, tracking down and bringing home animal protein.

The Farmer brain, on the other hand, is most comfortable with predictability. They like things lined up in rows, can do the same thing over and over, day after day, year after year, and they learn best by memorizing "this is how we do it." Questioning or breaking tradition is done slowly and carefully since having enough of a harvest to last the year hangs in the balance. Those are some of the characteristics of a great Farmer brain.

So, what's the problem? Farmers invented towns and schools while Hunters were still playing in the woods and fields. And, historically, Hunters have never done well when over-run or lined up or fenced in by Farmers. For the Hunter brain, school is painful, frustrating, humiliating, distracting,

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