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Veronica’s husband Jerry was sweet, supportive, hard-working, and a good father. But his inattentive ADHD was driving her out of her mind.

Often it’s the spouse — usually, but not always, a wife — who first realizes their partner might have adult ADHD. So does your spouse or partner have ADHD? If you answer “yes” to three or more of the questions below, they probably do.

See the photo? That’s my dad, Abraham “Al” Letich, the day he graduated college at the age of 60. It was one of the proudest days of his life.

This is a huge problem in the field of psychotherapy. Unsurprisingly, people with every type of ADHD frequently end up in therapists’ offices.

Are you (or someone you love) very, very smart but way behind your friends and the people you know in your work and career? And way behind where you yourself thought you’d be at this point?

No mental health condition is questioned and doubted more than ADHD. Either it’s seen as an excuse for laziness and lack of self-discipline, or a medical way to oppress boys in school, or else it’s a sign of the times and “everyone” has it. It infuriates me.

People with ADHD, especially when they first begin to wonder whether they have it, get told all sorts of interesting things about it from others. Much of what they hear is well-meaning but misinformed. Here are some typical things that are said – and here are the...