Famous people from history diagnosed with adhd

Hello to all you fine ladies and gents! Today I hope all of you have your permission slips as we’re going to go on a field trip who’s ready? . LET’S GO! Today’s field trip were going on a ride back in time to take a look at some famous people from a lot of many moons ago that also were diagnosed with ADHD. Some of them you may already know about and some you probably never thought would have ADHD or you may not have known about any of them and that’s why we’re all here on this trip. And by the way if you forgot to pack a lunch there’s vending machines when we get there. Let’s begin! Now way back and I mean way back back back back back back in 1798 a Scottish doctor named Sir Alexander Crichton started noticing children at young ages being easily distracted and having a harder time focusing more than the other children. The symptoms that the children were showing they called hyperkinetic reaction of childhood . Now let’s fast forward all the way to the year 1902. Sir George Frederic talked about the mental conditions otherwise in healthy children of normal intelligence. He noticed that these children were more impulsive, having a hard time paying attention and lacking self control. He noticed from a class of 20 kids that boys showed the symptoms more than girls; basically stating boys are more likely to have ADHD than girls and its still the same as today. It wasn’t till around 1960’s they started calling it Attention Deficit Disorder whether they were hyper or not. The list below of these historic or famous figures I compiled showed the same symptoms as children today with ADD or ADHD.

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• Vincent Van Gogh painter wrote about his inability to control and focus on which he called his “abstractions”. His biographies from his teen years to his 20s showed restlessness and the impulse to work could be capable with having ADHD/ADD

• Thomas Edison inventer was actually pulled out of school by his mother after 12 weeks attending a school in Michigan before he was kicked out. His teacher deemed him difficult do to hyperactivity and being prone to distraction. His mother being a teacher homeschooled him and at age 11 showed a lot of thirst for knowledge and was reading a wide range of books. Later it was suggested that his hyperactivity and being easily distracted was caused by ADHD.

• Ansel Adams a famous photographer at an early age was also very hyperactive and restlessness so much he was removed from several private schools by the age 12. For the next 2 years he was privately tutored by his aunt Mary and his father. He eventually finished his normal schooling at a private school and later on in life displayed his diploma in his guest bathroom. I suppose it doesn’t matter where he hung his diploma, he was at least proud enough to hang it on a wall. Lol

• Albert Einstein, physicist at age 12 Einstein learned algebra and Euclidean geometry in just 1 summer. He also taught himself calculus. At 13 he got more devoted to learning philosophy and music. And at 14 years old he said he mastered integral and different calculus and was reaching levels in math that surpassed his peers. The reason they believe Albert Einstein had ADHD was he was very forgetful and disorganized as much as he was intelligent.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist had a learning disability thought to be from dyslexia. There’s been reports at the age 12 he was kicked out school for not being a good speller, losing focus and not completing his assignments. As you can see none of that stopped him from writing the popular book The Great Gatsby.

• Abraham Lincoln, President Some people say Abraham Lincoln was diagnosed with ADHD. In my research I found he did suffer from mental health issues like clinical depression and was also taking blue mass pills. Lincoln suffered a lot of traumatic events also. When he was 9 he was kicked in the head by a horse and was unconscious for several hours, his thumb was severed by an axe, he also got frostbite on his feet, he was clubbed in the head during a robbery and he was occasionally struck by his wife multiple times. In my opinion if anyone had that kind of head trauma of course they would show symptoms that could possibly be linked with ADHD.

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What I like most about this post is that these historical figures had adhd and they still made it to the top. I know ADHD affects people differently in life and can be harder from one person to the next. What it all boils down to is finding the path that works for you to be successful in life. Trust me I wish it was easier said than done but it’s not. And that’s another reason why I did this blog post. To show you it’s possible to be or do whatever you want without having ADHD holding you back.

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