| Attention Deficit Disorder tends to focus predominately | | | | organizing simple everyday tasks and frequently |
| on children, leaving the ADD adult population largely | | | | become overwhelmed by the duties of everyday life. |
| underestimated. Yet, the hurdles of ADD are often the | | | | The ADD adult might have trouble maintaining |
| same, whether in a child or an adult. Present day | | | | relationships and controlling their mood. However, just |
| thinking suggests that all adults having attention deficit | | | | as no two people have the same brain, so too, the |
| disorder must have had it during their childhood years. | | | | symptoms of adult attention deficit disorder differ |
| This is not necessarily true. The main difference | | | | widely in individuals. Some may possess only the |
| between the ADD adult and the ADD child is that the | | | | minimum symptoms required for diagnosis while others |
| adult typically has more sophisticated coping | | | | exhibit many of the traits of the disorder. |
| mechanisms. Symptoms tend to reduce as one ages | | | | It is important that a physician rule out conditions like |
| and so fewer number of adults are believed to have | | | | anxiety, depression, hypothyroidism, manic-depressions |
| the disorder as compared to children. Also, adults are | | | | or obsessive compulsive disorder that can mimic |
| more likely to realize that they have attention problems | | | | Attention Deficit Disorder symptoms. Women should |
| than do children. | | | | rule out pre-menopause if the Attention Deficit |
| Adult ADD causes the adult to experience difficulty in | | | | symptoms appear in their late 30s or 40s. |