It’s very badly named. It’s less a ‘deficiency’ of attention and more an inability to switch on and direct attention. It would be better named as ‘executive function disorder’, since this is the area that helps you decide what you need to focus on, and control your behaviour and attention…Â
That undiagnosed and untreated, it can look an awful lot like anxiety and/or depression. That smart people can develop a whole bunch of systems and coping techniques that make it look like everything’s ok, but actually just maintaining that veneer of functioning at a basic level takes…Â
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