I find that people with ADD are, as a group, the most outgoing, fun, brilliant, friendly, adventurous folks I've ever gotten to know. I've met plenty of dowdy, cranky, overly focused engineer types (apologies to non-dowdy, cranky, overly focused engineers).
The following is without handy reference:
I read somewhere that ADD may have been behind the personality traits that made explorers, hunt leaders, great tactical officers, orators and other stand-outs do what they did. Many of them had trouble succeeding in 'normal' pursuits like farming, accounting, printing, clerking, etc., but excelled as
leaders in exploratory or unique interests.
It's not the preservatives in our food. It's always been here, in the human family. Without it we may never have gone over the next hill.
Put me with a couple of ADD adults on a bike ride and we'll have a great time.