Do you know what Attention Deficit in ADHD means? 🤔

Well, I Did Not! 🤯

I always thought Attention Deficit in ADHD meant that a child with ADHD lacks attention from parents or people in general. It turned out it is not about that at all! In reality, it means that the children with ADHD lack their own attention.

For me, this opened a whole new perspective on the condition! It also feels somewhat paradoxical that a hyperactive person is the one lacking attention. This becomes clearer when we replace attention with focus. Maybe it would be clearer if ADHD were called Focus Deficit instead...

By the way, ADHD originates from biological and environmental (in a biological sense) factors and NOT from the stress or parenting.

Disclaimer: All the information in this post originates from my conversation with DeepSeek. I've tried to make my questions as unloaded as possible, but I have not done a thorough research whatsoever, so take it with a grain of salt!