"What I find interesting, as a Baby Boomer, is how much the paradigm has changed. When I was a kid, only children who were "hyperactive" were considered to have

"What I find interesting, as a Baby Boomer, is how much the paradigm has changed. When I was a kid, only children who were "hyperactive" were considered to have a problem. People who had trouble concentrating were not considered to have a psychological issue, and of course in those days it was thought that few or no adults had any such issue." More than likely when you were growing up, homosexuality was considered a mental illness. We've learned a lot since then. :-) "There does seem to have be evidence that many people grow out of either the hyperactive or inattentive type of ADD/ADHD, and that impulse control and attention focus are learnable, but apparently they are more learnable for some people than for others under matched training conditions." You don't grow out of bonafide ADHD. It's with you for life much like OCD or bipolar disorder. You can learn to cope with it better, but you can't really make it go away (even with drugs though they help a lot).