The ADHD Explosion Quotes

“We take a clear stand in this book: for those affected, ADHD is all too real, producing a terrible inability to focus at just those times when attention is most needed: in classrooms, at the workplace, or when a peer, parent, or life partner is telling them something essential.”
― Stephen P. Hinshaw, The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance

“When Hinshaw and Scheffler make the provocative statement that the primary trigger of ADHD is compulsory education, they are fully aware of the heritability of the underlying symptoms and problems. Their direct implication is that ADHD reveals itself through the ever-increasing push for academic and job performance in an increasingly competitive world economy.”
― Stephen P. Hinshaw, The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance