Well, duh!
Most moms, teachers, et al recognize especially in their little boys, they are behind girls in emotional and sometimes physical maturity and do better delaying school or being judged against a class of other boys, not girls, who can focus, hold a pencil, speak and write earlier.
Not a fair contest when younger but they definitely catch up later. What they DO NOT need, is to be labled by schools with a "disorder."
Bogus science!!!!
I think such a “condition” may exist, but as others say - definitely way overdiagnosed (ADD and the new-fangled off-shoot ADHD).
And I don’t think it’s necessarily a hugely “bad” thing, as if it was a disease. Probably just a person who is toward the end of the bell curve.
My nephew was diagnosed with this ages ago, and he got alot of drugs and coddling (mostly the latter, my sister too often spending way too much time trying to force him to work and then doing it for him; also buying a laptop because he has “dysgraphia” and his hand hurts!).
But Rut had some concrete and abstract things behind him.
He was born with a skull that wouldn’t knit, so his head was not only misshapen but was very sensitive. Dr. Ben Carson luckily worked on him very early to force that skull closed.
He also was virtually raised by ninny nanny, who coddled him so badly she was still spoon-feeding him when he was 4. (She thinks she’s the cat’s meow for kids, BTW; she’s very annoying with her off-topic comments about herself.) Never mind basically letting him have what he wants without real consequences.
The boy was excruciating to deal with in school. We’re not talking “boys will be boys” (which I hate, BTW). We’re talking like a slug in school, never doing what is asked.
Luckily, for all these problems, his very nature is sweet and kind-hearted (and he can really suck up info IF it’s something he wants to do - but the teacher can’t ask for it!). While he drove even me nuts with his school-work behavior, he is extraordinarily generous, thoughtful, kind and decent and polite. From a young age up to now at 20!
So Rut may have been an example of true ADD - but he also may have been victim of both his skull problem and his nanny.