ADHD and focus.

I was not diagnosed with ADHD as a child.  Nobody even knew what it was.

I got good grades, but I had to study hard.  Math was my downfall. but my friend Gregory McAllester tutored me through it.

I needed to move — tennis, walking, jogging — and that helped quiet my brain.  I functioned fairly well.

It wasn’t until I was in my fifties that I figured out I had ADHD … and got help.

As I think about it, though,  there was one place where I felt completely focused and could tune out the distractions of the world.  

At my typewriter.

I’d watch my fingers fly across the keyboard, like a high-speed delivery system to download my brain.    

I don’t know if UCLA’s medical team would confirm this as a theory, but it’s certainly worked for me… and still does.  

I wonder if we introduced tiny typewriters back into the schools, if it would have any effect on all the kids who are now “suffering” from ADHD…

It’s just a thought.  We could call it “Erica’s Theory”.