My father and mother video taped, on average, 30 minute segments of family time starting when I was born till the age of six. I viewed three 2 and a half hour tapes. The first tape is from Nov27, 1982, until 1984, from my birth to the age of 2. The second tape is from 1984-1986, from the ages 2 to 4. The final tape is from 1987. The three tapes provide a convienient way of separating the different age of observation in this paper. In explaining my observations, I will use the name David for my father, Fawn for my mother, and Lev for my baby brother, born in March of 1985.

These upcoming observations will clearly have a certain level of bias, being that I am observing myself. I have tried to be as objective as possib

During the age of 0-2, I displayed an immediate interest in movement and action. I was very into problem solving activities, like simple shape puzzles. I always seemed to be doing something interactive though. My grandpa desperately wanted to play with me in one scene, and could not get my attention until he started waving his arms around. Once he stopped moving his arms around, I lost interest. This could be early signs of ADHD, or just an infant being an infant. Its hard to tell at such a young age, and therefore most of my analysis and research is on later stages.

At age 3, my brother Lev was 5 months old. There were some noticable changes in my behavior. I craved for the lost attention that newly-born Lev had "stolen" from me. In one occasion, my father switched from filming me, to my mother playing with Lev. I noticed this right away, and ran over to disrupt the fun. I demanded my turn with Fawn, and squished Lev until Fawn put him aside and gave me a turn. I was never reprimanded beyond a "be careful" from Fawn. At this point, I was still the most interesting person in the household, and ended up getting what I wanted. At this age I also began to show some signs of hyperactivity and moodiness. On one occasion in the family room, we were all passing around a hat to try on, and when it came to me, i tried it on, then proceeded to toss it in the air, and run around flapping my arms and screaming in a high pitched tone. After doing this I returned to a calm state. Another time, I became upset when David showed my that a spatula wasn't for cutting hair. I became visibly angry at myself, and planted myself right in front of the camera so nothing could be seen. David asked me to move out of the way, but I refused for about 10 seconds, then proceeded as if nothing had happened. I also showed signs of an internal thought process. Once, I started singing a song that was being played on the record player. When the song got to a point I didn't know anymore, I went into a blank stare. I was clearly 100 percent focused on learning and memorizing the song. I can recognize that stare confidently, because I still use the same one. I had already developed the ability to block out unwanted noise. At this point in my life I was thriving, I was fulfulling my largest craving, attention, and used my intelligence to develop quickly. The only negative came from the inconsitency shown in my parents pracitces. In one scene, David laughing and playing with me while I kicked him, and Fawn, the recorder at the time, told me to "stop, kickingn isn't nice." After this, I looked at David, he was still laughing and encouraging the kicking. Fawn intervened again, and this time I started crying. The strongest case for environmental distractions playing a part in my development of ADHD come from that scen

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