Adult ADD and ADHD

She was sitting in class trying her hardest to listen but the smallest movement by a classmate would distract her. She had a lot on her mind, most of it unimportant and idiotic but still it distracted her from what she needed to be doing. When the teacher told the class to pull out a paper that was given out last class, she just sat there looking around. She hadn't been there last class because she lost track of her days and time. She had a paper due in her next class that was nowhere near done and just now, she began to feel overwhelmed. For some this seems like just an excuse, for others, an amusing story, but for those with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), it's the way of life.
"...ADHD is the most common behavioral disorder of childhood. It occurs in four to eight percent of boys and two to five percent of girls. It was first described in the early part of this century and was initially thought to be the result of some type of brain damage, thus the name minimal brain damage, or MBD. By the 1960s, it had become clear that only a minority of children had any evidence of brain damage and the name was changed to 'hyperkinetic syndrome' or 'hyperactivity' (Comings, 1992)." …