ADHD sufferers now constitute 12% of school-aged kids. The two groups growing rapidly include girls and Hispanics. According to a sufferer, the feeling is like having the Library of Congress in head, but without any card catalogue. The suffer said that this is what feels like having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

An author of two books on this subject, Melissa Orlov wrote regarding this response in an article for Psychology Today.

The statement suggested by her has shot a hole in the general myth that ADHD sufferers are just lazy. She wrote that one should just give it a thought that how hard it would be to get organized.

According to a latest study from the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, more kids than ever have been facing ADHD now. The study, published on Tuesday afternoon, has discovered a 43%rise in ADHD diagnoses in kids belonging to age group 5 to 17, with sufferers now consisting 12% of the school-aged population.

Lead researcher Dr. Sean D. Cleary’s study data was based on the National Survey of Children’s Health, a CDC-sponsored survey to list the ‘physical and emotional health’ of children below 18 years.

Cleary, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health said that the spikes in subgroups were mainly compelling namely Hispanics and girls.

As per the science world, ADHD has been there for hundreds of years. A British doctor named Sir George Frederic Still was an early pioneer on this condition. He is known as the ‘father of British pediatrics’.