Edward M.Hallowell

But the evidence now shows that there are hosts of children and adults who have all the other symptoms of ADD but who are not hyperactive, or even overactive. If anything, they are motorically slow, even languid.

It can be downright disabling not to be able to rely on your own mind to remember things, to prompt you to get to places on time, to keep you involved in a conversation when you want to be, or focused on a page you really do want to read, or concentrated on a project you need to complete.

They call the group affective spectrum disorder. (It also includes bulimia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, cataplexy, migraine, panic disorder, and irritable-bowel syndrome.)

ife is a state everywhere in which there is much to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”

shame, criticism, defeatism, and devaluation.

Priscilla Vail, especially Smart Kids with School Problems, or check out Superparenting for ADD, which I wrote with Peter S. Jensen.

Diagnosing Learning Disorders by Bruce Pennington

Once you understand precisely what kind of difficulty you are dealing with, you are then equipped to make the delicate decision of how far to push.

The disability does not go away; one simply learns to cope with it as best one can.

Some dyslexics have particular trouble spelling. Others are what used to be called “mirror readers,” reversing letters in words, reading “was” for “saw” and so forth.