We will always encourage people with ADHD to embrace those ways of thinking and characteristics that make them unique.

This article explores the characteristics, causes, diagnosis, and treatment of inattentive key in ADHD.

Those above the age of 17 need to have had at least five of these traits.

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Treatment options include medication and therapy.

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