A common myth about ADHD is that because a child (or adult) can sit for hours in front of a computer screen or video game, ADHD couldn’t possibly be in the picture. More generalized, the myth is that an ADHD diagnosis means you “can’t” focus – so if you can focus on certain things, you must not have ADHD...
“Everybody has trouble focusing and paying attention, so either we must all have ADHD, or it’s being wrongly diagnosed in others.”
Working in such a unique and specialized field, when asked the inevitable “what do you do” question outside of our clinic walls, our answer usually gets followed up by a number of questions and opinions about ADHD and its symptoms...
Recently, an ADHD adult aptly described his racing mind as a back and forth dialogue without an appropriate mediator. When stopping to ask someone for directions, he says it goes something like this:
“Focus on the directions. Focus on where to turn left. Remember which street is one way….
Instead, I’m noticing her hairdo, the...
