"Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity. First of all, people with ADD have a greater tolerance of chaos than most. Living in distraction as they do, bombarded by stimuli from every direction and unable to screen out whatr is extraneous, people with ADD live with chaos all the time. They are use to it, they expect it. For all the problems this might pose, it can it can assist in the creative process. In order to rearrange life, in order to create, one must get comfortable with the disarrangement for a while. One must be able to live with the unfamiliar without, to use Keat's phrase, any 'irritable searching after fact and reason." In bearing with the tension of the unknown or the unfamiliar, one can enable something new to come into existence. If one forecloses a thouight too quickly, because it seems to weird or strange or disorganized, then the pattern or beauty that may be hidden within the fantasy will get lost." (Hallowell and Ratey 2011)