Intriguingly, ADHD is correlated with crime as well. Some studies would estimate that it's 4-10x (or more) as prevalent in prison populations as in the general population.[1][2]
We could conclude that a lot of people are self-medicating without realizing it.
There's also a significant reduction in crime rate and drug use in people with adhd that are being properly treated. I'll let interested parties do their own research.
I had episodes like this when I was younger. And had them flare up when I was taking Buspirone for anxiety as an adult. They'd last about 10-20 minutes and I always described them as "pure chaos of the internal geometric space."
Never did find any kind of label for the symptoms. I kept a journal of the episodes for a while. They seemed to come up monthly when I was around 16.
At the very least it's validating to encounter others who had had similar experiences.
That all makes a lot of sense. I wonder if those issues could be alleviated by contracting a sufficiently large outside firm to manage therapy services, thus at least creating some separation and objectivity for individual therapists.
My wife has been using an approach called "Design Therapy" (www.designtherapy.org) that uses design thinking methods for self/couples development. This allows mental health challenges to be approached outside of a "disease treatment" frame. I appreciate the approach.
When I run a technical interview for a dev role, I make a point to ask the candidate to Google their way to a solution since I figure that's probably one of the top skills they'll need on the job.
So much this. Knowing how to refine a search and how to guess phrases that will occur in the correct page (which sequence of words to quote and which not to quote) is at least as important as anything else like data structures.
I’d much rather have someone find the best page showing a specific tree algorithm, than describing it on a white board.
Bonus points if the searching test requires knowing the termninology. Having a broad-but-shallow set of knowledge is a key skill for developers in general, for this reason (information finding).
E.g knowing that a bounded cache can be a “LRU cache” will help you find information or implementations.
Sadly, the writing is on the wall for my trusty Hackintosh since they recently decided to drop support for AMD GPU acceleration on macOS.