Does everyone have ADD indirectly

Answer 1

No, but everyone has symptoms of ADHD. The symptoms of ADHD include procrastination, getting bored easily, being unable to sit still, and having poor memory. These symptoms individually have been apart of everyone's life at some point or another; it is the combination and the duration that make a diagnosis for ADHD.

--I'm not gonna delete the previous authors comment (because that seems rude) but all my research and classes totally disagree with that statement. These are what seem like surface symptoms of ADHD, and yes, everyone has them at one time or another. But the real symptoms of ADHD are attention, planning, set-shifting, working memory, and motivation. And while average individuals can merely 'get their but in gear' to overcome those times of laziness, ADHD individuals lack the brain mechanisms to do so. They literally have deficits in cognition (and therefore behavior). Not everyone diagnosed has ADHD. And many people have it that aren't diagnosed. Also, it's a spectrum disorder, in that some cases are worse than others. But about 5% of the population likely has it. Why is seems more and more people have it is because we are more and more becoming an information laden society, that requires certain abilities in its productive members, abilities that are limited in ADHD individuals. So no, not everyone has it, but a lot of people do.

Answer 2

Not every one has ADD only certain people for instance people with ADHD only have ADD and having ADD and ADHD you have to take a certain prescription that can only be prescribed by your doctor its called either focollian or Adderall typically you have to take for many years but that depends on the person they may grow out of the pill and won't have to take the pill any longer and the pill does decrease appetite and stunts growth