I'm in my 50s, and I believe manage ADD OK enough as an adult and it helps to acknowledge it. As a child I had various issues consistent with ADD but there was no diagnosis then. In the late 1990s I started to research it more after finding out about it, and decided then that likely I had/have ADD. Subsequently I have learned a lot more.

I'd like to understand when it started to be recognised in UK schools, when did they start diagnosing and treating it? I asked a teacher, she thought 1990s where she worked. When I was young I was tested for dyslexia, which I think they did for every problem child. I'm not dyslexic! I have read that children were being diagnosed in 1970s in US and being given Ritalin. I don't think this was the case in the UK however.

I can't go back in time but I wonder if things could have been a lot easier for me if there had been some recognition that I wasn't just badly behaved, disruptive in class, careless.

J.S.