Sasha Hamdani

There's been some thought about if we're looking at ADHD just from evolutionary perspective and we're looking at hunters versus gatherers.

ADHD people are the people who are going off and they're hunting and they're doing these things that involve risk and adaptation and impulsivity to some degree.

Yeah, and they're great at that.

And now we're putting that same group of people that would thrive in that environment in a new environment.

And I don't necessarily think it is...

Well, maybe it is due to all the stimulation, but I think it is just society adapts and evolves based on what its needs are.

And the needs are there is just a much larger neurotypical population.

And so the world is built for a neurotypical.

Now you're expecting this population of people whose brains are wired differently to occupy space in a world that just wasn't built for them.

And a really easy example of that is for ADHD.

A lot of people have delayed melatonin onset.

So their brains don't feel a normal, I feel sleepy at 10 and then I'm going to wake up at 7.

Theirs are like, I want to go to sleep at 1 and I would love to wake up at 10 a.m.

But that's not where society runs.

You've missed three hours of meetings already.

I think it's tough because you are expecting...

people as you're growing up to function and learn skills in an environment that's not built for them.

So you're already kind of starting off at a deficit.

And then, you know, you hit adulthood and they're like, okay, fend for yourself.

You haven't really had time to build good skills unless you've actually really dialed down