One thing I'm curious about is what Dick would have made of ADHD. He has a severely autistic character in "Martian Time-Slip" but I don't know how accurate (for the time, even) he tried to make his characterization.
Back to ADHD, though: I had a thought about ADHD not being recognized until the 80s, and I wondered whether the ready availa…
One thing I'm curious about is what Dick would have made of ADHD. He has a severely autistic character in "Martian Time-Slip" but I don't know how accurate (for the time, even) he tried to make his characterization.
Back to ADHD, though: I had a thought about ADHD not being recognized until the 80s, and I wondered whether the ready availability of amphetamines in the 60s and 70s functioned as accidental treatment on a mass scale, making it even harder to recognize disordered attention in adults. I feel as if Dick could get a couple of novels out of that.
Also: there's another Ignatz in Dick's "A Maze of Death." I didn't grow up Catholic, so I didn't even recognize the Ignatz/St. Ignatius connection
One thing I'm curious about is what Dick would have made of ADHD. He has a severely autistic character in "Martian Time-Slip" but I don't know how accurate (for the time, even) he tried to make his characterization.
Back to ADHD, though: I had a thought about ADHD not being recognized until the 80s, and I wondered whether the ready availability of amphetamines in the 60s and 70s functioned as accidental treatment on a mass scale, making it even harder to recognize disordered attention in adults. I feel as if Dick could get a couple of novels out of that.
Also: there's another Ignatz in Dick's "A Maze of Death." I didn't grow up Catholic, so I didn't even recognize the Ignatz/St. Ignatius connection