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Searching for ADHD Facts Beneath a Piles Of Myths

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ADHD or ADD) to people. It was called ADD when I learned about it, in 1981. Since then, I’ve probably logged hundreds of hours speaking about, reading about, writing about, and dreaming about ADHD.

It may sound like a tedious life, but to me it’s a subject of endless fascination and considerable humor.ADHD is a fairly common medical diagnosis now, a condition that most people have heard of.

But it is still misunderstood, caricatured, and trivialized. A few people, like me, rhapsodize about it, but it is almost always misrepresented.I took a stroll through the fun-house mirrors of my memory to bring you some common distortions.Attention deficit distorter, one of my patients once called it, coining a term I’ve never forgotten.

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