As a result, Barkley recommends breaking down assignments into manageable chunks. ADD teens have four times the auto accidents when they start driving. The above information is not meant to stigmatize these children, but to better help them. People with ADD are often passionate in a world lacking in passion. They experience a wider bandwidth of the spectrum of emotions - including anger and love.
Many people appreciate the arts because they bring back emotion that's been lost.
Perhaps talking to yourself all the time isn't good. You can incubate fear and negative emotion from too much self-talk. Some people are very successful because they take risks. ADD is a problem of doing what you know to do. Time is not given for common sense one has to emerge.