Tessa Lantsoe asked Rick Riordan:

Hello! In the books it says that demigods have ADHD and are hyperactive because they are trained for battle. Is there anything else that gives them a benefit for having ADHD? I was mostly wondering if the inattentiveness part of ADHD has something to do with being a demigod. It would make so much more sense if I was inattentive because I was a demigod rather than just because my brain is weird.

Rick Riordan The way I see it working in Percy's world, ADHD is about survival. 'Inattentiveness' could just mean you are not paying attention to non-critical stimuli, the boring stuff that won't kill you, but you are staying laser-focused for anything that might be an actual threat. (Or anything that might provide help, like Oreo cookies, which is also a high survival priority.)

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