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I read the Murderbot Diaries series of books, and the main character, a robot, seems to have major ADHD…

www.goodreads.com The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells

The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells, is a series concerning a violent, self-hacking cyborg searching for the meaning of life. All Systems Red, the fir...

Are there any other books where the main character seems to be neurospicy?

Also I highly recommend the series to anyone who likes SciFi. The books are really short so easy to finish even for slow readers or “need to read that page 5 times” readers. And audiobooks exist too!

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Percy Jackson is written as having ADHD, because the writer's son had it. I liked it, but maybe the "it's actually a super power" thing might rub some people the wrong way.
- A superpower most of us have little control over.
  
  To me the most interesting superpowers are those that come with big disadvantages and are hard for the hero to control. It makes good stories. In my life, I prefer simple happy stories though.
  
  I agree, hence the disclaimer. Although there's one ADHD lesson from that book that I liked: ADHD people struggle with the way the modern world work and school are structured, but if put in the right environment we thrive.
  We can't fight mithology monsters like Percy does, but I think if we find the right environment to live and work in our ADHD will me more an advantage than an hindrance. Easier said than done, of course, I'm lucky enough to find a work that I love.
  
  My life might generally be a train wreck, but god damn am I good at emergencies, especially the “we’ve turned a truck over in a silly place” “The digger’s half sink in the lake” kind. The wheels constantly come off things like keeping my house from being a war zone, but when the actual wheels come off, I’m actually fitting on all cylinders for once. It’s a kind of crap trade off, but I’m not sure how much I’d want to change it!
  
  If you have ADHD, emergencies are common because the dopamine to motivate doing stuff isnt there so the extra norepinephrine from procrastination's consequences finally brings your norepinephrine levels "high enough" to be "normal" (its usually below normal for us) while an average person is going to be swimming in it enough to be paralysed. So the same reason that we tend to procrastinate is also why we tend to be chill when everyone else is freaking out. Not only are we used to those scenarios, our brains are ironically, the only ones that are going to be "normal" during those emergencies.
  
  Well I never knew that! Nice explanation, thanks
  
  So like being an X-Man without Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted? 🤔
  Having laser focus but at unpredictable times still seems more of a super power than Rogue's ability to kill anything she touches.
  
  Cyclops and rogue came to mind first yeah. Or imagine xavier having no control over his powers, just turns people into cabbages on accident. Magneto accidentally crushing cars as he walks past them or pulling the pacemakers out of people etc.
  
  Juggernaut has to remain perfectly still or else he just never stops.
  
  Sleep walks: well there goes the neighborhood... and another and another...

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