Edit: based on interaction elsewhere in this thread, it seems I and LoganDark agree very much. I don't have time to rewrite this now, the compile finished a few minutes ago already, so just keep in mind that I and LoganDark seems to agree to a large degree when you read this.
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There are the medical definitions, and there are the things you understand when you have friends and family with ADHD and you hear them describe it.
Yes, executive function is the problem.
Also yes, thanks partially to that and frequent comorbidities ADHD-ers also experience:
- time blindness (maybe because flow is so much more important to ADHD-ers that they have learned to hold to it at all cost?)
- on average fewer slots in short time memory (I don't know it this is in DSM, but it is well known)
- anxiety and depression
- etc
Every doctor I have spoken to is well aware that ADHD has many problems in addition to the ones stated in the diagnostic criterias.
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There are the medical definitions, and there are the things you understand when you have friends and family with ADHD and you hear them describe it.
Yes, executive function is the problem.
Also yes, thanks partially to that and frequent comorbidities ADHD-ers also experience:
- time blindness (maybe because flow is so much more important to ADHD-ers that they have learned to hold to it at all cost?)
- on average fewer slots in short time memory (I don't know it this is in DSM, but it is well known)
- anxiety and depression
- etc
Every doctor I have spoken to is well aware that ADHD has many problems in addition to the ones stated in the diagnostic criterias.