Re:Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?
by Thrwwy_20220323 on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @06:34PM
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My career has been various applications engineering roles connected with the semiconductor industry.
I used to have misconceptions about what ADHD really is -- that it was about the hyper kids who couldn't sit still or pay attention in class -- and the controversy over drugs that turned them in to calm, compliant little worker bee zombies.
I used to have misconceptions about what ADHD really is -- that it was about the hyper kids who couldn't sit still or pay attention in class -- and the controversy over drugs that turned them in to calm, compliant little worker bee zombies.
Then I found this a few years ago from Dr Russell Barkley of Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center: "30 Essential Ideas You Should Know about ADHD" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzBixSjmbc8eFl6UX5_wW...
Too many of these ideas resonated with things I had literally said out loud about myself in the past.
This is breaking news, so I can't speak to how things may change, if at all. But in my 30's? Yeah, life would have been different.