Trouble with time management, and a tendency to procrastinate.

If you have at least six out of nine symptoms on the axis of inattention, but not on the axis of hyperactivity and impulsivity, then you have ADHD, predominantly inattentive. This is what used to be called ADD. If you have six out of nine symptoms on both axes, then you have ADHD, combined type. And if you are one of the extremely rare people who h

But you can also get trapped in the TPN, doing a task from which you cannot disengage. This is the hyperfocused state that people with ADHD can fall into. Far from being helpful, it can keep you stuck in one task, unable to shut down the screen, turn off the TV, or move from one paragraph to the next. This is the often unrecognized downside of focu

What compounds these problems, and makes some people doubt the validity of the diagnosis, is that these same people can hyperfocus, deliver a brilliant presentation on time, and be super-reliable when they are stimulated. But, as we’ve said, boredom is kryptonite; the ADHD mind recoils from boredom, disappearing into a fervent search for stimulatio

In the descriptors we offer for VAST below, you will see there is no requirement for impairment, because we are not designating this as a disorder, but as a trait. You will note there is also mention of many strengths. And unlike a formal ADHD diagnosis, for which six out of nine criteria on the axis of inattention or the axis of hyperactivity and

Predominantly Inattentive Presentation: if enough symptoms of inattention, but not hyperactivity-impulsivity, were present for the past six months

We are entrepreneurs ourselves, and the great majority of the adult patients we see for ADHD are or aspire to be entrepreneurs too. The owner and operator of an entrepreneurial support company called Strategic Coach, a man named Dan Sullivan (who also has ADHD!), estimates that at least 50 percent of his clients have ADHD as well.

Or you can ask your husband to take out the trash and in the time it takes him to walk over to the trash container, he forgets what he’s supposed to be doing and slowly ambles right past it.

We are the people Marlon Brando spoke for in the classic 1954 film On the Waterfront when he said, “I coulda been a contender.” So many of us coulda been contenders, and shoulda been for sure.