Remember when the term “ADD” was all the rage in your seventh grade classroom? Then one day you learned ADD wasn’t a thing anymore and ADHD had taken its place (kinda like when your cousin Bobby came home for Thanksgiving last year suddenly insisting to be called “Robert”).
So who is this new big-kid version of ADD?
Technically, ADD (attention deficit disorder) doesn’t exist anymore — ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) eventually became the official term in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But the older term stuck around for quite a while anyway.
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Remember when the term “ADD” was all the rage in your seventh grade classroom? Then one day you learned ADD wasn’t a thing anymore and ADHD had taken its place (kinda like when your cousin Bobby came home for Thanksgiving last year suddenly insisting to be called “Robert”).
So who is this new big-kid version of ADD?
Technically, ADD (attention deficit disorder) doesn’t exist anymore — ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) eventually became the official term in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But the older term stuck around for quite a while anyway.
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