From a Child’s Perspective

Children with ADD are not distracted from a conversation; they form new connections.

For example:

We are talking about Aunt Marcy.

This happens simultaneously in a child:

• Aunt Marcy → has dogs → dogs have smelly feet → feet wobble weirdly → wooden (chairs wobble) → I want to sit there (relation with chair).

This happens in practice:

• Adults talk about Aunt Marcy.
• Child says: "I want to sit there."

It looks like the child started talking about something completely different, but the point is that most of the time, this is not the case.

Therefore, all research about ADD is complete nonsense. Instead of asking the right question ("Why were you thinking about that?"), people get put into boxes because they are thinking about something else.

Thinking about something else is not necessarily the same as being distracted.