Painful? Sure. Excruciatingly difficult? No. That's not hyperbole. It's an entirely different scale of difficult. Quickly scaling 8 flights of stairs is painful

Painful? Sure. Excruciatingly difficult? No. That's not hyperbole. It's an entirely different scale of difficult. Quickly scaling 8 flights of stairs is painful for most healthy non-athletes. For people who have severe asthma, it's excruciatingly difficult. They didn't throw these executive functioning problems in the DSM-V criteria for ADHD based on a hunch.