Heh. It's cute that Maté presents it this way, but I'm not sure about this whole idea.

We face no such difficulty if we see that what is being transmitted genetically is not ADD or its equally ill-mannered and dis-combobulating relatives, but sensitivity. The existence of sensitive people is an advantage for humankind because it is this group that best expresses humanity’s creative urges and needs. Through their instinctual responses the world is best interpreted. Under normal circumstances, they are artists or artisans, seekers, inventors, shamans, poets, prophets. There would be valid and powerful evolutionary reasons for the survival of genetic material coding for sensitivity.