That is a very complex question. Speaking as someone with inattentive ADHD, who grew up undiagnosed... social isolation. Not being able to do anything right. Not being able to do well in school or the work world, even with a high IQ and everyone saying, "You're so smart!" Shame at not being able to keep a clean house. Possibly one reason I never married or had children.
And that's just my experience. From talking to other women with ADD, I know it's pretty common. For men, it may be a bit different--at the very least, men aren't expected to be as on top of everything as women... they're expected to have wives to keep them organized, not be the wife... but still some of the same applies.
If you really want a primer on it, I recommend
Driven to Distraction by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey.
No.
You did. I know people your age who have it, and they've had it all their lives. But back then, it wasn't well recognized, and was usually written off as badness or stupidity or both. Or, in some cases, known as "minimal brain dysfunction." Calling it attention deficit disorder didn't come along until later. Labels change, but what they're labeling doesn't necessarily.
Probably about 5% or 6% of them do. That's the latest estimate for how much of the general population does. I doubt it's any different in Zimbabwe. But it can manifest differently depending on culture, worldview, and expectations. And it may be that they're less likely to be identified that way in Zimbabwe.
None, anymore than love affects deafness or blindness or cerebral palsy. But love does make life in general better, for us as for anyone else.
High doses of screen time can make neurotypical people act more like people with ADHD. But that's not the same thing. The ADHD brain is fundamentally different in some ways (
brain scans have shown this).
By the same token, Uranus and Neptune and Pluto and Chiron have always existed, but not always been known to astronomers, let alone astrologers. To tie this back to astrology (astrologically posts only in astrological forums!), it seems to me that awareness of ADD/ADHD, in this particular way, correlates with what the outer planets are doing. Up thread, it's been mentioned that the explosion in diagnoses coincided with the Uranus/Neptune conjunction in Capricorn.