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What is ADHD?
ADHD Aha!
The Importance of Paying Attention
Everybody I've ever seen who has ADHD has a few things they can do where they have no trouble paying attention. People with ADD, it is incredibly difficult for them to be able to make themselves pay attention. Unless the task is really interesting to them, not because somebody told them it ought to be Interesting. All characteristics of ADHD are sometimes going to be described as 'difficult' But this is not something that's under voluntary control. If you can do it here, why can't you do it there? It's not a problem with willpower. The way the brain is wired is very different from how people think about focus.
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