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Re:Homeless Man Has Three Degrees and Can't Find a Job by picklestime on Saturday August 13, 2011 @07:43PM (#2882311)
Very intelligent, had all sorts of ideas, could talk about anything related to his field (networking) and would challenge you to think about things differently. Unfortunately, he could talk all around theory, but he couldn't execute. It was a strange sort of inability to choose between several equally good approaches to solving a problem. Every project he worked on got about 3/4 to completion and then fell flat into failure.

Almost textbook description of ADHD. ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877100

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Re:Homeless Man Has Three Degrees and Can't Find a Job by reduxredacted on Sunday August 14, 2011 @06:37PM (#2884696)
That's very interesting, thanks for the link.

I have children, and I've worked with a few folks who have been diagnosed as ADHD, but I think the focus always lands on the "Hyperactivity". In retrospect, he could very well be ADHD (it was called ADD when I was a kid, and "shut up and sit down" when my dad was a kid), but I my armchair quarterbacking (psychologicalicking [made it up]) can see the signs there. He was a very organized individual, coupled with the observed behaviors (hyper focused, often a part of ADHD that isn't associated with the condition).

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