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First of all, ADHD is often co-ocurring with other things, like autism. Second, medicine is helpful, but it's not a panacea. Also, two common ADHD medicines in the US face FDA-imposed shortages, so prepare for many calls to the pharmacy. Also, ADHD is not just hyperactivity and attention--it impacts emotional regulation, impulse control, task initiation, time management, and other things related to executive functioning. Finally, ADHD isn't bad. I like to think of it as an insanely strong, overenthusiastic hippopotamus--if you work with it and get to know it better, you will be able to have a hippopotamus friend, which sounds handy, but there's always the risk of it getting a little too excited and breaking stuff. |
The biggest limitation I have observed with poorly managed ADHD is short-term memory management. Everything else might be a more obvious social indicator, but nothing impairs real world performance like forgetting things in the short term. It means things get lost, tasks remain unfulfilled, instructions get jumbled.
If through regular practice you can teach an ADHD child to improve this everything else gets better as well. You aren't going to fix the brain of a child with ADHD but you can teach solution management and coping strategies through repetition. Its the same with dyslexia in that you aren't curing the dyslexia but instead teaching how to circumvent it.
ADHD can be a super power. Focusing on multiple things simultaneously is really draining, but people with ADHD tend to perform this well so long as they can remain consistently engaged. That is a fantastic capability for operations jobs.