i think one of the worst things about the focus on adhd in children is that it implicitly puts the diagnostic and research focus on subjects who have not yet fully developed the ability to understand or communicate their experiences or the aspects of their experiences that might be unique like how many times in their life does a person with adhd even well into adulthood go ohhhhhhh thats not normal  the circularity of it is absurd if the people learning about adhd are learning about it from children who are the children learning about it from its a frickin human centipede of neurodevelopmental research   were learning about the experiential qualia of complex neuropsychology from children children with adhd  to be clear this isnt hating on children or implying that theyre not worth being researched they just literally havent learned as much yet and what they have learned theyve learned from sources that have proven themselves deeply unreliable like are children gonna be telling doctors well doctor i do find that im quite sensitive to bright lights i believe the condition is known as photophobia im quite comfortable leaving the lights off in a room in general i find visual stimuli like television substantially more distracting than auditory stimuli like music also i think i may have whats known as delayed sleep phase disorder i sometimes take melatonin to help fall asleep and its made me wonder if i could have an underlying issue with the way my body produces melatonin not sure if those issues may all have some interdependent roots in connection with the superior colliculus but i thought you might be interested in that particular web of symptoms