| Individuals with Inattentive ADHD spend a great deal | | | | accommodations for children with Inattentive ADHD |
| of time thinking about things which are going on in | | | | is to keep them engaged in the learning process. A |
| their minds and a lot less time attending to the here | | | | classroom where an instructor lectures on and on |
| and now. This is considered a major liability in school | | | | about a topic, without any required input or |
| but it may, in fact, be the seed of great creative | | | | engagement from the students can be a recipe for |
| inventions. | | | | disaster for the Inattentive ADHD child. Many parents |
| Albert Einstein as a college student was described as | | | | have found that schools that understand that learning |
| being inattentive, often spaced out, and disorganized. | | | | is an active process are a much better fit for children |
| Thomas Edison was said to be an incurable | | | | with Inattentive ADHD. |
| daydreamer, and Frank Lloyd Wright daydreamed so | | | | Einstein, Edison, Wright, and Tesla may well have |
| intensely that his family had to shout at him to get | | | | been diagnosed with Inattentive ADHD. Would this |
| him to pay attention to what was happening in front | | | | have made them less Creative? Some folks believe |
| of him. | | | | that putting creative inattentive individuals on |
| Poor Robert Frost was kicked out of school for | | | | medication will stifle their creativity. I actually think |
| daydreaming and Nikola Tesla could work out his | | | | that this is not the case. It is actually quite possible |
| entire inventions in his head without ever putting | | | | that these folks would have been even more |
| anything on paper. | | | | creative and even more productive with a bit of |
| I feel that calling these folks inattentive is really kind | | | | medication. |
| of silly. These folks were absolutely attending to | | | | We have anecdotal data that reports that too high a |
| some pretty heady stuff. What they were not | | | | dose of stimulants makes the inattentive less curious |
| attending to is what is going on in front of them. | | | | but just the right dose is helpful. So these great |
| People with Inattentive ADHD often cannot stop | | | | inventors would probably not have benefited from a |
| 'daydreaming' because what they are thinking about | | | | high dose of Ritalin but a low dose of Ritalin may |
| is extremely interesting and what is going on around | | | | have made them even more amazing and productive |
| them is, comparatively, less interesting. | | | | than they were already. |
| One of the most effective classroom | | | | |