Some of the symptoms which can be found in a diagnosed individual include excessive fidgets or squirms, difficulty remaining seated, easily distracted difficulty awaiting turn in games, blurts out answers to questions, difficulty following instructions, difficulty sustaining attention, shifts from one activity to another, difficulty playing quietly, often talks excessively, often interrupts, often does not listen to what is said, often looses things, and often engages in dangerous activities. Including the above-mentioned symptoms, young adults that suffer from ADHD are “. . . twice as likely to be cited for

Although some say ADHD, along with ADD, is a disease, that statement is a myth. There are four types of diseases, infectious/ contagious, which needs a germ to be spread and found, trauma, which requires an outside insult to the body, systemic, which needs cells/chemicals to malfunction and cannot increase in percentage of cases in succeeding generations (ADD has risen 400-500% in ten years), and the non genetic disease and the non-genetic disease require a toxic change in the environment. ADHD does not fall under the described categories of diseases. Also, a lab test can produce results showing disease in the body, but there is no lab test that can diagnose an individual with ADHD. Currently, to decipher whether or not an individual is dealing with ADHD, a series of tests which contain checklists, rating scales, and observations are being used. As research continues, it is failing to support claims made by original theorists. One doctor Fred Braughman, states, “. . . in plain words, ADD and ADHD is an expensive, elaborate woven illusion of a disease-not a disease at all.” (Stein 9) Although this information is loud and clear, ADHD is b

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