ADHD / ADD — CURSE OR BLESSING?

Coaching and training often brings us in close contact with people who have (or think they have) Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For nearly 25 years, our analysis in Neuro-Semantics is this— People are more likely to have intention deficit rather than attention deficit. True ADD is based on a brain deficiency and that is actually rare.

What we usually call ADD is simply the lack of wanting to do whatever one has attention deficient about. The child does not want to study grammar or math. The adult does not want to read up on self-help or pay attention to a conversation that seems irrelevant. So test it. Ask about what the child or the adult can pay attention to, focus on, and get completely absorbed in. “What do you love?” “What do you find most engaging? Video-games, baseball, sports cars, etc.?” If there is even one place in life where a person can stay focused— then that person does not have attention deficient disorder. Instead that person suffers from a lack of interest.