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Mikey has traits of ADHD. But then a lot of people do. Labels like that generally shouldn't be applied to people who don't have a medical diagnosis, because it gives the impression that everyone with any of the traits has the disorder. Not everyone who is hyper or unfocused needs to have a diagnosis to explain why. It's hard for me to believe that Mikey has any kind of disorder, because it's not like he's struggling to cope with the world at all.
But yeah, he definitely has the traits. I don't really feel it matters. He's an entertaining character and the reasoning as to why he behaves one way or another isn't really important to me.
People will keep complaining that he's "dumb" though (even though the theme of every Mikey-centric episode is him providing he isn't) because they can't handle the fact that his character is depicted differently than in other incarnations. They'd probably rather have the bland, uninteresting barely-counts-as-a-major-character version of Mikey from the Mirage/IDW comics.
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