Is short attention span part of ADHD?
Mercedes Labadie
2025-07-18 10:05:23
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You might put off tasks that require focusing. You may also seem distracted when someone’s talking to you and lose things a lot. Has trouble staying focused on things they’re doing, including listening to presentations or reading a long passage. Gets easily distracted by things going on around them, or sometimes their own thoughts. Starts a task easily enough but then gets sidetracked and doesn’t finish it. With ADHD, the frontal lobe of your child’s brain is wired in a way that makes it harder for them to use directed attention. Directed attention is the ability to focus on something you don’t find very interesting. If your child has ADHD, it takes even more energy than usual to direct their attention to things they have to do.
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