“becomes apparent in some children in the preschool and early school years and is characterized by hyperactivity, inattention and impulsively”
Isn’t that called being a toddler and kid?
Kids are calm or jittery, lazy or ambitious, listen or don't. Gosh...Sounds just like adults!!
Nope, just a "boy"...girls are apparently largely immune to this fictional "disorder"
It’s called being a toddler or a kid who is subjected to a mind-numbing routine of TV, video games, and inane adult-organized activities. Sure there are real cases of ADHD, but it sure as heck isn’t 9% of the population. As for ADD, which really should never be lumped together with ADHD, it’s very real and I have it, but it’s not really a “disorder”. It’s a normal variation which happens to be maladaptive for today’s information-based economy and society, and it’s quite likely that 9% or more of the population has it.
A hundred years ago and for centuries before that, it was exactly how everyone wanted their kids to be, because it was very beneficial in an economy based on agriculture and simple manual trades. ADD is characterized by difficulty concentrating while sitting still and processing even moderately challenging or non-repetitive information, and a tendency to hyperfocus — unintentionally — on simple repetitive tasks (mainly those with a large physical component, but things like video games and repetitive computer-based tasks often produce the same effect). A kid who’d quickly become fidgety and distracted when sitting with a book, and who when set to manually planting or picking endless rows of a crop, or preparing vegetables for canning, would quickly become intensely focused on the task and stick with it for the many hours necessary to get the job done, was the ideal kid. That explains why the trait is so prevalent in the population.