>>What would make you stressed out will calm them right down.
And the opposite can also be true. When I flew as a young boy, my parent’s went to their MD to get something to calm me down during the flight. I end up running up and down the aisles.
My mom wouldn’t let me be drugged up (she was a school nurse and knew what ritalin did to most kids). I mostly grew out of it, but still sometimes am spacey, scatterbrained one minute then laser focused the next. Only very challenging subjects kept my attention in school.
Like you said in another post, I often think “what box are these people talking about?”
It’s called hyper-focus. IOW,
you’d stay up all night to finish something that really caught your attention.
However, if it didn’t interest you, no power on earth could make you give it a second thought.
If it competed with the ping pong balls and won, it was worth ALL your focus.