There's a famous choreographer by the name of Jillian Lyn who worked on projects like Cats and Phantom of the Opera. Her mother took her to the doctor because she had problems with sitting still. The doctor examined her and then turned on the radio and walked out of the room with her mother. They watched her through the window and that's when the doctor said "She's not sick. She's a DANCER." and then once she was put into dance class, she noticed that all of the girls were just like her. People who move and respond to music and sounds and other forms of stimuli.

And I share that to say that a lot of us, both today and yesterday don't just have undiagnosed conditions but we have undiagnosed GIFTS. I think that society works so hard to make us assimilate into the social and cultural norms that we confuse behavioral problems with extraordinary abilities.

Like that kid who got his ass beat regularly for throwing balled up paper into his mother's favorite vase might have been the next NBA star. Or the kid in 3rd grade who kept going to detention for singing TV commercials during math class might have been another Frank Sinatra.

So I wonder if these undiagnosed conditions or the ones found later in life are just untapped abilities that we haven't found a use for. Today I get paid very well from all of the knowledge that I learned from taking stuff apart as a child. My friends and family think that my parents should have beat me more to stop me from doing that. But I guess that my parents being former hippies explains all of the times that I got away with stuff that I shouldn't have.