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Attection Deficit Disorder
By: Ryan Fish

To be nobody-but-myself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make
you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can
fight, and never stop fighting.
-E.E. Cummings, 1958

Attention Deficit Disorder is a long and some what mysterious sounding name that tries to describe something you probably already call Hyperactivity. But, attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is much more that Hyperactivity.

History of ADD

In 1902 children who demonstrated many of the symptoms that are today part of attention
deficit disorder would be described as children with "morbid defects in moral control". In
the 1940's, children exhibiting this form of behavior were diagnosed with "brain injured
syndrome" because children with brain injuries from disease or trauma behave in much
the same way. Any child displaying these behaviors regardless of evidence of brain injury
were diagnosed as having brain......

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