It seems to me that we’ve always had many people both on the spectrum and with ADHD, but our modern society has such stiff norms that the people who are the most involved with society sees these otherwise often fairly benign variations as diseases to be medicated away.
Schools herd children through something so rigid that a lot of people are told they’re problematic, lazy, stupid, or insufficient in one of millions of ways. And then that continues into adulthood with work and, in a context familiar to many around this site, frameworks for how work should be done. People talk about estimates, and working in bursts or worrying about something your professionalism tells you is important but your boss tells you to ignore become a problem to fix. Finding a level in the hierarchy and a pace that works well for you and being content there is lacking ambition and being lazy.
I guess when a society is sick, its members are diagnosed.
Schools herd children through something so rigid that a lot of people are told they’re problematic, lazy, stupid, or insufficient in one of millions of ways. And then that continues into adulthood with work and, in a context familiar to many around this site, frameworks for how work should be done. People talk about estimates, and working in bursts or worrying about something your professionalism tells you is important but your boss tells you to ignore become a problem to fix. Finding a level in the hierarchy and a pace that works well for you and being content there is lacking ambition and being lazy.
I guess when a society is sick, its members are diagnosed.