... about or very well known. Why now is this disorder suddenly affecting three to five percent of our youth (Ingersoll and Goldstein, 3), and not stopping there but affecting them into teen and adulthood? The difference we see from 1902 to 2002 is not the children's behavior, but the way in which we conceive it. The children once thought of as "lazy ... exactly out of the text written by Ingersoll and Goldstein. Trevor was "obviously bright and creative but has difficultly learning in the classroom because he never finishes his work, looses books and papers, and can't get organized to plan...

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... to others and you lose everything all of the time. You forget things that you have to do every day, like setting an alarm clock or remembering all your school books. You"re easily distracted by the littlest thing and you hate to do any task that might make you think. You also start several different projects and don't finish any ... on purpose, but because you just can't help yourself. You never stop talking and you act as if your energy will never run out. Because hyperactivity usually diminishes during the teen years, until recent years, it was always believed that children would outg...

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