I could go on. The point is that the ADD label makes is too easy to ignore what might be going on beneath the surface of things. Glad we know what the problem is now. But perhaps we don't really know at all. Although there is a great deal of support from the medical and scientific community for ADD, once one looks into the literature, things become less clear.
ADD is in the eyes of the beholder.
The continuous performance tests that are often used to diagnose for ADD are a joke. One of them is a box that sits on a table. The child is told that random numbers will appear in a screen on the box. They are instructed to press the button below the screen whenever a 9 is followed by a 1. Yet on the basis of this, children are being diagnosed and having their medication levels adjusted.