The Effect of "Boxing" on an ADHD Mind

Hey, MisWired here. And today I want to talk about "boxing". When I talk about "boxing", I meant the concept that people have to do things a certain way, have to do certain careers, and if they don't, then they are a problem. But what happens when this concept comes up with a brain that is wired to be impulsive? Well, you get the worst scenario for an ADHD mind. People with ADHD don't thrive well when they are forced to work to their weaknesses. When their strengths mostly rely on their ability to channel their boundless energy and impulsive nature into everything they do, keeping them from using it actively hurts them. The fact that as a society we expect people with ADHD to actively work against their brain or in some cases around it, instead of with it, and then pretend that what we have done hasn't done any damage to them. If we're going to honest, telling a person that they don't know what they need in order to succeed, yet we are unwilling to work in them to figure it out, is a bit hypocritical. Forcing them into a system that works for you without even trying to adjust it for them, just copy and paste, and expecting them to succeed is never going to end well, both for you and for them. We need to find a way to balance both sides, otherwise we are going to lose a sizable portion of the population who will end up trying to separate themselves from their ADHD, or even worse, absolutely hating themselves. But before we get to that point, we need to accept that we have a role to play in both the cause and the solution, no matter how much we wouldn't want to admit it.