Ok it seems like there could be a possibility. Does your PDOC have a specialty in ADD? If not I would try to find one who does. The doctors who do not like handing out the diagnosis. There has been great strides made in the Area's of ADD for quite some time now but doctors still do not like to diagnose it. So it is better to try and find one who has a specialty in it or to talk to a therapist because typically they deal with and see more ADD patients then PDOCS do. Also to help the doctor see you may have ADD is to get all your old transcripts out starting in kindergarten and checking and reading all the teacher comments. Looking for things such as: Talks excessively, difficulty working alone, Leaving others alone to do there work, Does not follow instructions, Trouble waiting turn etc. If things like this are present in your school transcripts throughout your life it really helps the doctor to make the diagnoses as this shows a pattern through out your lifetime that did not just pop up in thew last year or two. Or at least give them something go off of. When I finally found my PDOC through various searches online. I went to my first appointment and we talked for a little over two hours. She asked me why I was there I said lets start with this handed her my transcripts and that is where we went from. WE talked she asked me questions I talked. After it was all said and done and she had taken her history of me. She told me she did not even have to do the history to know I had ADD. Sometimes it is just that visible. But sometimes it is not and it takes longer to find out.

Back to your studying and staring at a page, when you are doing this are you staring and your brain is thinking about other things and or wandering, rather then studying the page you are looking at? DO you ever read a whole page forget what it said and have to reread it? Do your thoughts become so intrusive sometimes that you have to just walk away or sit there and stare trying to get it under control?

It is also harder to diagnose now because we have what Dr. Hallowell in a book of his I read calls pseudo ADD. The society we live in now is so technologically advance that we are almost all being trained to have ADD to a degree. Smart phones, computers, TV, All fast data entry into are brains, So when we do things we expect fast and immediate results. Xboxes Playstations, anything that gives us pleasure at a fast pace, basically sensory overload that our brain struggles to filter thus giving the person or people a shorter attention span to be able to keep up and filter the info. Which in turn also trains the brain to be have a shorter time where focus can be maintained and does not like any sustained mental effort. So this also presents and issue to some doctors in trying to pick out the differences between the two. But like I said earlier, If you bring transcripts and show the pattern has been going on your whole life and not in just recent years it will help a specialty doctor of ADD make the diagnosis easier.

I was one of the unfortunate People who slipped through the cracks. I was not particularly hyper in school, Also at the time I was in elementary school. Add was coming on stronger and gaining momentum through out the 80's and 90's but it was not widely accepted everywhere and teachers and staff didn't always see it has ADD they would just see a kid who cannot behave. But they did not know the signs of it then. But now in even more recent years teachers are starting to be able to see the signs and tell something else is going on and they usually make the first observations and alert the parent. So it is being more widely accepted now and the proper help is getting in place far earlier now.

Well hope this helps a little more, Also ADD'ers tend to ramble Adderall had not kicked in yet while I was writing this