Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) could be more creative than other people. Holly A. White from the University of Memphis and Priti Shah from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor studied 60 people, 30 of whom had ADHD. They found that the adults with ADHD had higher levels of real-world creative achievement and displayed higher levels of creative thinking on a test of creativity. People with ADHD showed an inclination towards idea generation while those without ADHD were stronger at problem clarification and developing ideas.
No shocker there. Creative people have always been looked at as spazes by boring people.
ReplyDeleteThat's just it: I HAVE the ideas, but can't focus long enough to develop them. (Or, at my age, maybe it's just that I can't remember them long enough!)
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