Your physician will ask about certain specific physical factors that are often associated with ADD, including left-handedness or ambidextrousness, frequent ear infections in childhood, upper respiratory infections or other illnesses as a child, allergies, sleep disturbances, especially great difficulty in falling asleep, or frequently waking up during the night or trouble getting up in the morning, awkwardness or clumsiness or poor hand-eye coordination, bed-wetting as a child, accident-proneness as a child, or high
