Inventor of ADHD: “ADHD is a fictitious disease”

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ADHD is just a label that's given to people who think a certain way. The weird thing is that last D, by labelling it as a disorder it makes it sound like something that needs to be corrected so that the afflicted can return to social order. That seems flawed to me, shouldn't the social order be able to expand to handle a little variation?

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 21 years old after submitting to a bunch of tests over the course of a few hours. The reason I got myself tested for it was because I had been put on academic probation for failing the majority of my classes. This sort of thing had been going on for awhile with me doing terribly in school in spite of everyone telling me that I am apparently very intelligent. The mind wanders and sometimes it's very hard to rein it in. I took medication for a short while and while it did help me focus I did not like the side effects, I lost a lot of weight because I just wasn't hungry anymore and I was anxious all the time.

A couple years later I volunteered for a brain imaging study examining the dopamine system in adults with ADHD. The hypothesis was that people with ADHD have a deficit of dopamine leading them to need more stimulation to get the same physiological response as someone without ADHD. I got a PET scan and 2 MRIs, never read the results though. My way of getting that extra stimulation has been in indulging my imagination for the most part, and reading.

One idea I've had lately is that while my conscious mind is jumping from one thing to another all the time my subconscious mind seems to store it all up and churn through it and put the pieces together and then just offer the completed thoughts up so that they just pop into my head, though sometimes they need the right question to coax them out.