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“Since the 1980s, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has been on the rise, not just among children, but now among the adult population as well.…

— Jeff Davidson

“Virtually all the authors of popular books on the subject assert that ADD is a heritable genetic disorder. With some notable exceptions, the genetic…

— Gabor Maté

It's hard academically for an ADD sufferer - but, doing something they love, they can be the most focused person of all.

— Justin Gatlin

“Or what about attention deficit disorder, and the litany of negative, even catastrophic associations it carries? Fifteen years ago, it barely existed, but today…

— Martin Lindstrom

My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to…

— Kyle Dunnigan

Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether…

— Alfred Binet

“The major impairments of ADD — the distractibility, the hyperactivity and the poor impulse control — reflect, each in its particular way, a lack…

— Gabor Maté

Many inherited disorders can perpetuate poverty by leading to disabilities that disrupt people's ability to work. In turn, someone's capacity to secure an effective…

— Scott Gottlieb

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really…

— Jared Leto

“We do not have to look for diseases to explain why some people are not able to experience the full flowering of their potential.…

— Gabor Maté

I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 14. Weirdly enough, I then learnt, through doing different things, to concentrate.

— James Haskell

ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.

— Leon Eisenberg