> ...
>"Life uses messes to get to well-ordered solutions. Life doesn't seem to
>share our desires for efficiency or neatness. It uses redundancy,
>fuzziness, dense webs of relationships, and unending trials and errors to
>find what works."
>
>This is a great description of my husband and how he thinks and works. He
>can solve many problems but he wrestles and thinks in his own way. So I
>had this thought -- what if all of the people we have labeled as ADD or
>other kinds of mind/thinking disorders actually are the more progressive
>thinkers? Because little kids can't sit still and don't necessarily take
>to reductionsist thinking -- they are labeled underachievers at a
>minimum... I was labeled as such -- oh -- she has a very high IQ but
>doesn't do well in school -- so there is something wrong with her...
>
>What if all of this represents a shift in the way human beings are
>thinking/being and it doesn't fit accepted standards or expectations? We
>don't fit into the scientific/reductionist methodology so there is
>something wrong with us. ...
Interesting concepts, Sherri. IMHO, the difference between a 'true' ADD
person, and one who 'appears' to be one is their accomplishment[or lack
thereof], not their 'style'. I have two friends both who work like you
describe above. The difference is the one who has been diagnosed as ADD
accomplishes next to nothing -- the other is a productive scientist. The
ADD person has been fired from numerous jobs, started many failed
businesses, been through many affairs, divorce, etc. etc. The scientist
seems to 'self-organize' out of his chaos, the other friend just waffles,
and keeps dreaming. From my experience, those who I know that are
creative work like Sherri describes, the key is that they can emerge from
their mess with a solution/product/accomplished goal. Could it be that
they have a [strange] attractor and those w/ADD do not?????
Valdis Krebs
inflow@concentric.net
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