Gift of ADD?ADHD - Cheerful Giving

The preacher man this morning was explicating the concept of cheerful giving, and it dawned on me that cheerful giving is an attribute of the ADD/ADHD nation.  We are cheerful givers.  We will give anything and everything away for nothing, we volunteer for anything and everything, although we really accumulate nothing to make giving much of an impact, and we have no skills so our volunteer work seems to be a net deficit for anyone who is managing a task.

But, we look at things from a thousand ways.  We may not be able to design a bridge, but we can tell you immediately if it will fall down, because we looked it at a way you did not.  Bridge builders could concentrate in school and learn bridge-building, we could not and did not.

We warn and are ignored because we know nothing about bridge-building.  But we are right.  (Someone said "you can be happy, or you can be right: pick one.")  We move quickly from task to task, seeing learning, innovating, and are generally just happy.  The powers that be cannot have that: people pointing out error, people not producing like robots, people somehow happy.

So today the ADD nation is drugged.  And we all lose the benefit of their insights, their innovations, their warnings.  The "cure" for ADD, ritalin, is far worse than the disease, for the person forced to take it, and for the rest of us who lose the good of the ADD/ADHD citizen.

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