I keep trying to search for evidence of successful people with ADHD, and there are no shortage of websites, but being the pragmatic so-and-so that I am, I want proof!
Just a list of names is not enough for me, although if I had time I’d read the biographies of all the names listed to find my own evidence. When I was at uni we’d be in trouble if we didn’t reference the source of every fact we included in our essays – and quite right too, so that the reader could see for themselves that we haven’t just made stuff up. But the internet isn’t quite so strict, of course.
It is documented on several websites that Dustin Hoffman had learning difficulties. I love Dustin Hoffman and wanted to find evidence of this, so I asked on a popular message board if any of his fans knew if it were true, and what their source was. I had a range of replies, from people implying that ADHD people were retarded, to posts saying that the ‘facts’ must be true because people who put up webpages MUST do their research! HA!
It was soon clear that I was barking up the wrong tree. I shall obviously have to wait until my screenplay’s up for an academy award, so I can ask him myself.
In the meantime I’ll have to believe them at:
http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.asp?r=258
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