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Somewhere on the tubes yesterday, I found a summary of an article called High IQ Is No Help for Those With ADHD, Yale Researchers Find. This seems pretty obvious to me, but ... whatever, guys.

Many of these people are told they can’t be suffering the loss of executive function (the ability to plan and carry out many day-to-day tasks) from ADHD because they are too smart, said Thomas E. Brown, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

The high-IQ, ADHD group lacked self-management skills and the ability to focus. They tended to procrastinate and be forgetful and had difficulty in harnessing their talent to complete many daily tasks, the study found. In fact, 73 percent of the ADHD population showed significant deficits in five or more of the eight measures of executive function.

Or you could have just interviewed some of them. Nevertheless, this will be useful ammunition in the continual fight against misunderstanding.