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by nxobject 311 days ago
> Surely ADHD would not be cognizable where people don't have to spend 8hrs/day through their youth sitting in one place.

Or, for that matter, in a society where people regulated their days by cues like the sky and the body, rather than the carefully organized "rain or shine" clocked time needed by the Industrial Revolution.

(This thesis isn't mine: the historian EP Thompson wrote a classic article on how the transition from a rural to an industrial working class in Britain was accompanied with timetabling and "clock discipline".)

https://academic.oup.com/past/article-abstract/38/1/56/14546...

https://academic.oup.com/past/pages/special_issue_3