We read on ThirdAge’s Boomer Daily News that ADHD is now being reclassified as a disease not of children but of adults as well. And we are not a bit surprised. It seems doctors are in the process of updating "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) textbook and have submitted a proposal to the American Psychiatric Association that could make it easier to identify older teens and adults with the disorder. Prevalence rates are expected to increase as a result. Like maybe 50 percent for adult males?
Aren’t the guys around your house like the guys around ours always jumping from one project to another? Don’t they always have the remote in their hand switching impatiently from one game to the next? Don’t they have trouble doing simple activities like remembering what you told them or listening (especially when you are telling an extremely interesting story about a friend.) Quite frankly, don’t they have the attention span of the average rhesus monkey?
But this also makes us wonder, is ADHD really a disease when it comes to males or even little boys? There have been some who complain that nowadays little boys acting like little boys too often are classified as having ADHD and are medicated. Will we soon be medicating their fathers as well? Now we know guys can’t remember where the milk is kept. So can you just imagine them calling out, “Honey, where’s my Ritalin?” because they keep forgetting it is on the bathroom shelf right next to their Viagra.
