Have you ever considered how perfectly your ADD child fits into today’s culture?
If your child is still in school, then maybe not. School can be one of those things that ADD students are ill suited for.
Think about it. It requires sitting quiet and still for hours on end. It requires lots of listening and paying attention. It requires deliberate, slow thought processes. And there’s very little “audience participation”.
In general, in many ways, school is being taught today the way it was taught centuries ago. George Washington sat in a school room and listened to the teacher speak and was expected to learn that way. Are things much different at your child’s school?
Contrast that with the way the rest of the world works. Instant messaging, cell phones, increasingly faster internet connections. Do this while you’re doing that. Information is coming at you from all sides and in various different ways, and most of it at an alarming speed.
This was the world Attention Deficit Disorder was made to live in. Except when the rest of the world realizes it, they won’t call it a deficit or a disorder anymore.
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You’ve got a point. Instantaneous Media in the Information Age does contribute to shortened attention spans. I think that anyone who grew up at a time when media, especially the internet has become mainstream would have diminished attention spans (and that’s like majority of the world). If so, we all have ADD in one way or the other.