Here is a direct quote from Wiki...
"ADHD is the most commonly studied and diagnosed psychiatric disorder in children, affecting about 3% to 5% of children globally and diagnosed in about 2% to 16% of school aged children. It is a chronic disorder with 30% to 50% of those individuals diagnosed in childhood continuing to have symptoms into adulthood. Adolescents and adults with ADHD tend to develop coping mechanism to compensate for some or all of their impairments. 4.7 percent of American adults are estimated to live with ADHD."
While I am not a Mathematician, I can add. If 2-16% of kids have ADHD (which is a pretty big difference in high and low estimate), and 30 -50% of these kids continue to have ADHD as an adult, than shouldn't 1-8% have adult ADHD? how is it only 4.7%? How do you define adult ADHD? Adults are rarely in classroom type settings for 8+ hours a day.
Another strange part of my previous quotation was, " Adolescents and adults with ADHD tend to develop coping mechanism to compensate for some or all of their impairments." What "coping mechanisms" are they referring to? Being thrown out of class? Causing trouble when the teacher turns her back to the students? Failing tests? My coping mechanism was going into business management and not being forced into classroom type scenarios.
If there are secrets to coping with ADHD that I am not aware of, I am interesting in knowing...
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