[john_the_writer]

I firmly believe the acronym is incorrect. It is not a deficit; it is an advantage in some ways.

I'm a software dev.. Been so for > 30 years, and I can tell you that ADD is a super power. ADD is not so much that you cannot pay attention. It's that you pay deep attention to the "wrong" things.

I bet if you sit your nephew in front of a video game they disappear into it. This getting into the zone like flipping a switch is an amazing skill to have when programming. It's a nirvana like state, programmers dream of.

Your nephew will sit in class and not hear a word his teacher says, because a bird outside has him in the zone.

Get this kid into a coding boot camp.

[freetinker]

I am strongly of this view. ADHD seems like a maladaptation in modern times, but in the right context and the right environment it is a superpower. Until this realization a few yrs back (when I was in my early 40s), life was a struggle. Now that I’m aware, it’s less painful.

“Deficit” is context dependent.