Sometimes a mother brings her child in for an ADHD evaluation and, somewhere in the middle of talking about her child, she gets very quiet. She has just heard herself describe the difficulty getting started. The procrastination followed by a frantic burst of productivity. The big emotions. The sensitivity to criticism. The tendency to lose things, forget things, or become completely overwhelmed by things that seem as though they should be easy. And then she says something li

When most people think about ADHD, they think about behavior. They think about the child who cannot sit still. The student who forgets assignments. The teenager who procrastinates until the last minute. The child who interrupts, loses things, gets distracted, or seems unable to follow through.