Does ADD affect children and adults in fundamentally different ways?
No, the same symptoms — distractibility, impulsivity and restlessness — that same triad is present in both children and adults. Though one difference is that the lives of adults are different from those of children. It can be a less obvious problem for adults because adults are allowed to do what they’re good at, and they’re not forced to do what they’re bad at. Whereas kids are forced to do both what they’re good at and what they’re bad at. We ask kids to be good at everything, but adults don’t have to be. Of course, the longer you live with undiagnosed ADD, the more likely it is that you’ll come under the influence of secondary problems like anxiety and depression. If you feel chronically frustrated, that’s depressing and anxious-making. That’s more of a problem in adults. What did you mean when you wrote that in the world of ADD “landing is learned in midair”? The person with ADD typically puts off studying, understanding or learning a new skill until it’s a crisis, and they’re ab
