Understanding ADD and ADHD: is it really an attention deficit?

Contrary to popular belief, ADHD is not an attention deficit. People with ADHD don’t lack attention. If anything, they have an abundance of attention. What they lack is the ability to control what to focus their attention on.

…And not for lack of trying.

In this article, I am exploring the neuroscience behind why ADHD-ers sometimes hyperfocus, and sometimes… cannot focus at all.