Comment by snuxoll

As it stands, many medical conditions that require maintenance medication that may cause side-effects you wouldn't want when you're airbore don't disqualify you from being a pilot. The entire point of the FAA medical examination isn't to make sure you are a perfect specimen of human health and have no issues whatsoever, that would disqualify a hell of a lot of pilots from flying.

> And it's not like flying airline routes is a job that would even appeal to the typical ADHD-diagnosed person - like you said, its "bread and butter" is sticking to boring checklists.

My ADHD diagnosis is not a reflection of my personality, it's a chemical imbalance of my brain that prevents things non-ADHD individuals would consider rewarding from feeling that way to me. I fucking love spending hours flying an A320 around in Flight Simulator, and I literally go through most of the same checklist items that commercial pilots do in a game, just to fly some virtual cargo around in return for imaginary internet money on FSAirlines.

Do I want to be a commercial pilot? No, I've got a pretty good job as a SWE/SRE that requires substantially less bullshit, and the vision in my left eye can't be corrected enough to pass a FAA ME for a commercial pilots license anyway. But I will be absolutely damned if I let somebody say it wouldn't appeal to me anyway just because I have ADHD - like I don't have enough bullshit checklist work to go through in any other job.