A genetically linked condition of the brain where a person's attention naturally moves around rather than staying focused on a single task, conversation or thought (also called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). It is not an attention deficit, it is a tendency to move one's attention around. And it is not a disorder, unless you happen to have a job that requires long periods of concentration on a single task (which is why ADDers tend to have jobs like police officer, reporter or entrepreneur). And finally, it's not something you "have," it's something you are (you wouldn't say "I have red-headedness" or "I have caucation"). In the spirit of renaming acronyms, I much prefer "Attention Division Dominant" (as opposed to AFD: Attention Focus Dominant).

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