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Imagine living in a fast-moving kaleidoscope, where sounds, images, and thoughts are constantly shifting. Feeling easily bored, yet helpless to keep your mind on tasks you need to complete. Distracted by unimportant sights and sounds, your mind drives you from one thought or activity to the next. Perhaps you are so wrapped up in a collage of thoughts and images that you don’t notice when someone speaks to you. Two major mental handicaps that are too often overlooked are Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). AD/HD was identified around 100 years ago, although it may not have been called such at the time. There are references to groups of students that were “hyperactive, inattentive, and impulsive” in the journals of George Still, a pediatrician, dated 1902. However, he did not understand ADHD and thus labeled them “morally defective”. Moreover, in the 17th century, philosopher John Locke noted a group of students who, “try as they might, they cannot keep their minds from straying.” Believe it or not: Abraham Lincoln’s third son, Tad, fit the picture for ADHD (he would burst into the oval office while chasing his brother). By the 1930’s children with AD/HD w