everyone else is being rightfully sentimental so i wanna talk about evolution instead i’ll try to keep myself from rambling but i’m a bio teacher and while i was getting my bachelors evolution was my favorite subject and i took all my extra major-based electives in that  so it’s probably not an evolutionary advancement but the opposite it was probably very useful in hunter-gatherer societies to have brains like ours ones that were always on alert and ready to hyper focus on whatever task grabbed our attention first and also able to turn on a dime because some emergency is now happening we need to respond to there’s a little bit of research into this that i can re-find if you’d like but it’s all just hypotheses since psychology is in the grand scheme of things an extremely young field and nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing yet  something i always appreciate it about the sub reddit is that it doesn’t allow all that “adhd is a superpower” talk if you want to be overly positive then knock yourself out but this is a disorder because even if we used to be the way most humans were that doesn’t do us any good now if you’re reading this you were born in this century and our brains have been suboptimal to say the least for dealing with the demands of a post-industrial age society i personally don’t see the point in sugar-coating it it sucks to be us a lot of the time  but we can adapt and we can grow and we can look to ourselves and our loved ones for support also if you’re a spiteful narcissist like me you can take joy in the fact that you made it this far in life with a temporal handicap in at least that way you’re stronger than your neurotypical peers  congratulate yourself more often because you deserve it   that being said how are you doing op i hope at least everyone else’s very kind words in this thread have brought you some comfort