Did Albert Einstein have ADHD

Answer 1

yes Einstein did have ADHD

umm no he did not. there is no evidence that he had anything remotely close to adhd. it is said that he had speech difficulties as a child but beyond that we fail to see any lasting issues ad co-morbidities that are frequently associated with adhd. furthermore speech difficulties re COMMON in children, much as in the same way dyslexia is merely the inability to recognise spell sounds or phonemes or rather connect phonemes with graphemes.

Considering that ADHD is 'new' - which it invariably is we cannot suggest without greater evidence that Einstein can be retrospectively diagnosed in the same way consumption might be cancer or a massive yet benign tumour.

For a disease supposed to be highly heritable it is often odd that almost always NOBODY in that family prior to the 1970's ever had anything like ADHD - and you'd think it would be memorable! Yet this incredibly modern disease with no specific causes other than supposed contributors such as diet, environment, even that genetically, mothers attracted to risk takers caused this over time. or how about smoking whilst pregnant? or premature birth? or exposure to organo-phosphates?

the other more likely argument is that considering universal education is younger than the USA perhaps using the teaching methods of the Victoria enlightenment might not suit the minds of our children today.

the important thing here is to not attach baseless connections between historic eccentric people and hang ADHD on their coat tails. in the same way that merely being white doesn't mean you can associate yourself with other famous historic white people.

failure to reach certain grades whilst excelling at others is evidence of nothing other than he put the effort in where he wanted to rather that he had ADHD and could not do everything.

Answer 2

There is no evidence to suggest that Albert Einstein had ADHD. While he did display characteristics associated with ADHD, such as being easily distracted and hyperfocused on certain topics, it is important to remember that ADHD was not formally recognized during his time.