ADHD can be a scourge, an unremitting, lifelong ordeal, the reason a brilliant person never finds success but rather limps through life in frustration, shame, and failure, amid catcalls to try harder, get with the program, grow up, or in some other way reform. It can lead to suicide, addictions of all kinds, felonious acts (the prisons are full of people with undiagnosed ADHD), dangerously violent behavior, and a shorter life.
