[Zylark]

Totally with you. The ADHD diagnosis have been extended too far in definition. It almost encompass all unruly behaviour that can be more easily explained with boys being boys. In other words, restless little buggers in search for themselves. And unlike girls do not talk about it, but act on it.

Sooner or later it will all sort it out by itself. Usually in the late teens.

But that is not to say a real ADHD condition do exist. It do. But there is no real clear demarcation line between a medical condition and just growing up, though somewhat more, umm, actively, than the norm.

But I am sure no psychologist. I am just a skeptic that find it rather strange that a diagnosis makes an order of magnitude more cases than just a few decades ago.

That means one of two things, either some enviromental issue makes more ADHD children, or the diagnosis is stretched. Who gains on the diagnosis being somewhat more encompassing? Indeed, the very same that sets the premises. There is a saying for that around here: Don't put the goat on straw protection patrol.