Here is a study that says it predicts criminal recidivism. This study says its predicts substance abuse.

The "Controversies" section of the wiki article you linked is a good starting point.

Quotes:

"Debates center around key controversial issues; whether ADHD is a disability or merely a neurological description, the cause of the disorder, the changing of the diagnostic criteria, the rapid increase in diagnosis of ADHD, and the use of stimulants to treat the disorder."

"[D]iagnosis is more likely to be made in the younger children within a grade; the authors propose that such a misdiagnosis of ADHD within a grade may be due to different states of maturity (...) children born in December (the youngest) 39% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than those born in January (the oldest)."

It's en vogue, and the diagnostic criteria are sufficiently vague to ensure that if you want a diagnosis of ADHD, you'll probably be able to see yourself in such a light that you satisfy them. This introspective process may be affected by mental resilience. Self-perception is crucial for such topics. Take a subjectively healthy person to rigorous psych evaluations and watch the diagnoses roll in. Whether we say "he has X, because the criteria were met" or "he's healthy, since he doesn't mind much" depends mainly on how well that person copes with the various stressors and expectations associated with the human condition, particularly in modern times. Some people like having a diagnosis as a coping mechanism, some don't (I'm excluding severe cases).

In short, for the majority of the usual stressed out first world population, including run-of-the-mill ADHD cases, whether you get the diagnosis or not is a choice you make.

I've interned at a psych clinic where anyone unfortunate enough to walk on the street after heavy drinking wouldn't leave without being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. There's go-to diagnoses subject to cultural trends and trends within the medical community. I count most cases of ADHD (that I know of) among those.

So I recently found out I have ADHD inattentive type. I think that is a cause of my current unemployment. I have been trying to say about ways to compensate that are science-based but having a hard time finding good information (I am on a medication now). Any suggestions would help.

I donated a small amount

I have been trying to find ways to compensate for some of the worse problems of my low conscientiousness. I tend to not be thorough when it comes to things I do (for instance checking spelling before posting comments,checking to see if I made a mistake in a project I am working on, making sure I pay attention to detail). I really haven't found anything worth noting so any help would be appreciated. (The seriousness of this is I am close to being fired for it and fear I wont be able to compensate well enough)

(I realize I cant change my conscientiousness score I am trying to compensate for having a severely low one)

I have also started rereading HPMOR so I can get caught up.

I have been thinking a lot about career choices and maybe long term goals lately and I feel like I am lost on both fronts. The goals/dreams I have had in the past are gone (due to me not being conscientious enough see above, being talked out of the other option , having medical problems that prevent me from doing them). So I feel kind of like I am a leaf being blown around by the winds of the situation I am in. Instead of an agent acting in the world (sorry for the rambling)

"Emotions Revealed" has a test in the back and is recommends to read along with doing the training (I am currently reading it)

My understanding is that many kind of pesticide and herbicide were proven to have adverse health effects, like cancer. But not all of them.

In the lack of information of which specific pesticide/herbicide/... was used on a given piece of "conventional food", and in-depth knowledge of the toxicity of each of them, I consider the "chose organic when possible" to be a reasonable safety measure. Some of the "conventional food" will not be any worse than the organic, some will be worse, and since I can't tell them apart, I consider "non-organic" to be weak evidence towards "slightly toxic".

The other point is, regardless of the effect of the food itself, some of the "conventional farming" does damages to the ecosystem - there is evidence it does pollute underground water, kill bees, ... Not all of it, but once again, I lack the ability to tell apart a "low-impact" conventional product from a "high impact" one, so I tend to chose organic also because of the effects not to me when I eat it, but to the everyone when it's produced.

Both of them are relatively weak reasons, but buying organic when possible only has a weak cost (it's not that much more expensive, and I can afford it).

I'm also interested in any research on GMO's people have done.

I am terrible at commingled up with ideas for goals I want(meaning I cant think of any goals) How might I use these techniques for that

Over the last week:

Been practicing being much more open and sympathetic with people (especially wife) about emotions. Has had some big gains.

Wife has been using personal TDT on everything and has become much more effective at excercises, food habits, and sequence reading.

Used the "I am a rationalist, I can do X and nothing bad will happen." thought pattern to motivate myself to try things that I was previously averse to. (mostly gross and/or sexy things)

Been climbing trees at all opportunities (who knew there were so many opportunities for so much fun).

Been practicing being generally excited and high-energy about life. (yeeehaw! high fives all around!)

Dabbled in various day-planning and productivity techniques. Mild gains. Limiting factor seems to be attention span.

Rewarding self for noticing and siezing opportunities to be socially or otherwise courageous.

Being Specific. Holy crap! Once you start noticing this, it is everywhere. Still not super good at automatically being specific, but I'm quite good at noticing unspecific things now.

Had some unfortunate emotional instability over last few days. Was very depressed and useless yesterday. I don't like being depressed. Also some useless rage. Didn't break anything or blow up, but can't do much else when mad. (EDIT: realizing how poor internet text is for conveying emotion. I feel like having a big lesswrong internet hug, but it is hard to communicate this.)

Now if only I can make myself actually work...