Family history. In your parents, grandparents, or extended family, is there any history of ADD or hyperactivity (not likely, since the diagnosis was not made frequently a generation ago, but if it was, it is highly significant)? Any history of related disorders such as depression, manic-depressive illness, alcoholism or other substance abuse, antisocial behavior, or dyslexia or other learning disabilities? If you are adopted, that itself is a significant finding, as ADD is much higher among the adopted than among the general population.
