          ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER-RESIDUAL TYPE: A QUESTIONNAIRE
        
                        Phil Torrance MD MPH FACPM 
               Diplomate in Psychiatry and Preventive Medicine. 
        
                            **Introduction**
        
              This questionnaire compiles many symptoms (the things 
        that bother you) and signs (clues to the presence of the 
        disorder) that trouble adult and adolescent sufferers of 
        Attention Deficit Disorder (also known as Attention Deficit 
        Hyperactivity Disorder, ADD, ADHD, ADHD-Residual Type, ADHD-
        RT, Minimal Brain Damage or Dysfunction, or Hyperactivity). 
        The questionnaire is in the development stage and is 
        submitted in this nascent form for your interest and 
        personal use. I shall be very grateful for any comments you 
        might wish to share. You may further distribute the 
        questionnaire (not for profit) if it's accompanied by the 
        Copyright Notice above. 
        
              I am a psychiatrist who treats adolescents and adults 
        with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).  I derived and 
        adapted the questionnaire items from a variety of sources 
        and will furnish a full bibliography with it in a future 
        metamorphosis.  I'm working on a scoring system but, frankly, 
        fear quantitation may prove to be a snare and a delusion.  So 
        far, then, it is intended as a checklist that may be self-
        administered and then be reviewed with a practitioner; be 
        discussed with others who wonder if you, or they, might have 
        ADD; or serve as a takeoff point for further investigation. 
        Let me know what you think, through this forum or by letter 
        or call to the address above.  Please. 
        
                      **CAVEAT and Big-Time DISCLAIMER**
        
              There is no one (or two) symptom(s) that mean(s) for 
        sure that you have "it" (whatever "it" is) in psychiatry or 
        in any branch of medicine.  Diagnosis is pattern recognition; 
        the more symptoms present and identified, the closer the fit 
        to the pattern and the more likely the diagnosis, but there 
        is no free lunch and no sure thing.  This questionnaire will 
        not diagnose anyone; it may (hopefully) provide a place to 
        start thinking about what could be causing your distress or 
        disability.  Please consult a professional you trust to take 
        it from there.  If in doubt, get a second opinion. Don't give 
        up; if ADD is not the answer, something is.  The only 
        guarantee a practitioner can make is that she or he will 
        keep working on the problem with you; find a qualified 
        person who makes, and keeps, that promise and you will find 
        help. 
        
                    **QUESTIONNAIRE INSTRUCTIONS**
        
              Instructions: Answer each question by checking or 
        circling the one (and only one) response that seems best to 
        indicate the degree to which the particular statement 
        characterizes and describes your feelings, behaviors, 
        abilities, experiences, or skills.  The key word is 
        "characterize;" this questionnaire is hunting for traits and 
        characteristics, not just for the outlying or unusual 
        aspects of you and your behavior.  Notes at the end of the 
        table explain some of its more obscure aspects. 
        
              (SA) = Strongly Agree or Certainly Applicable, to a 
        significantly disabling or distressing degree. A certain 
        yes. 
        
              (A) = Agree or Probably Applicable, to a moderately 
        disabling or distressing degree. An uncertain yes, in some 
        doubt. 
        
              (D) = Disagree or Probably Not Applicable, (or, if 
        applicable at all or ever present, only to a dubiously 
        disabling or distressing degree). An uncertain no, in some 
        doubt. 
        
              (SD) = Strongly Disagree or Certainly Not Applicable, 
        or, if ever present, is rarely and trivially distressing and 
        never disabling. A certain no. 
        
                        **QUESTIONNAIRE BEGINS**
        
        #    ITEM    EXTENT TO WHICH THE ITEM APPLIES =
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        1.   A major problem: confusion, trouble thinking clearly.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        2.   A major problem: depression, low self-esteem. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        3.   A major problem: difficulty in finding and 
             keeping jobs.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        4.   A major problem: forgetfulness or poor memory. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        5.   A major problem: inability to concentrate. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        6.   A major problem: inability to establish and 
             maintain a routine.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        7.   A major problem: inability to perform up to 
             intellectual level in school or work.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        8.   A major problem: lack of organization.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        9.   A major problem: your job performance is below 
             your level of competence.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        10.  A major problem: poor discipline.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        11.  You often turn to intense physical or mental 
             activity, or to drugs or alcohol, to self-medicate and self-
             regulate.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        12.  You are often overwhelmed by what's going on 
             around you. As a result you retreat into shyness, apathy, or
             solitary intellectual pursuits.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        13.  Daydreamer: Quietly suffering and not disturbing 
             anyone in school, yet internally (mentally) hyperactive, 
             often overlooked as a child, you grew up to become "the 
             absent-minded professor."     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        14.  Your major internal goal is to get organized by 
             living on the edge, responding to crisis or to physical 
             challenge. You are a risk taker, pressing for the next 
             challenge that organizes and calms you.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        15.  Your inner world is constantly shifting and 
             changing.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        16.  Your relationships and friendships are frenetic, 
             superficial, and feel unattached; you're unable to sit with 
             another and maintain the attention needed to sustain 
             intimacy. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        17.  You can distract yourself out of one feeling 
             state or emotion into another, but you can't stick with any 
             one feeling state long enough for a sense of satisfaction or
             completion.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        18.  You have a feeling of drivenness (may feel as if 
             at the mercy of some "inner force").    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        19.  You seem immature, with fleeting passions, 
             childlike enthusiasms, and a lagging behind in achieving or 
             negotiating lifesteps and milestones.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        20.  You have distressing interpersonal problems 
             (relationships, friendships, getting along with others, 
             "always feeling misunderstood").   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        21.  Intimacy is very hard for you.  You have learned 
             to avoid it, from being too distracted and restless to stay 
             long in any close relationship.  You can't commit.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        22.  You typically feel withdrawn and lethargic. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        23.  You constantly look for a new stimulus to tear 
             you away from your prior focus.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        24.  You have "overreactive" moods; are easily 
             disgruntled, discouraged, and depressed to a degree (you 
             and) others believe to be out of proportion to the 
             precipitating stress.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        25.  You are graded (labeled by teachers, 
             supervisors, other authorities) as an underachiever in 
             school and work, not performing up to your abilities, 
             "lazy." .      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        26.  You are aware of not living up to your 
             abilities, so you consistently feel frustrated, angry, and 
             depressed.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        27.  You have a gnawing feeling you are not living up 
             to your potential in major life areas.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        28.  You usually present unevenly, with (sometimes 
             conspicuous) success in some areas of life and utter failure
             in others.  This inconsistency, particularly because of the 
             apparent willfulness of the deficient behaviors, frustrates 
             you and others.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        29.  Other problems: You may have a mood disorder, an 
             impulse disorder, an obsessive-compulsive disorder, a 
             substance abuse problem, or an anxiety disorder. You may 
             have been called treatment refractory (You have been through
             many doctors and treatments without benefit; "nothing 
             helps").  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        30.  Alcoholism: You have associated alcoholism or 
             problem drinking [severe cases of untreated ADD].      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        31.  Addiction: You have associated addiction(s), 
             either to substances or to such activities as gambling 
             (prevalence greatly increased in adolescents and adults with
             previously untreated ADD) (DCD).   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        32.  Ambivalence: Although you actively seek 
             structure as an alternative to feeling lost, uncertain, or 
             disorganized, that same structure feels confining or even 
             physically uncomfortable (e.g., needing order but hating it,
             needing a boss to tell you what to do, but hating being told
             what to do).   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        33.  Serious legal and behavioral problems may also 
             be present. (DCD)   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        34.  Anxiety disorders (disabling or distressing, 
             pervasive anxiety symptoms) may also be present. (DCD)
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        35.  Social: You are or feel "bad" (unacceptable, 
             shamed).  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        36.  Social: You can't tolerate being alone and 
             typically feel empty or "at a loss" when not focused by the 
             company of others.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        37.  Social: You suffer repeated failures in social 
             functioning (may feel as if you never "fit in"), and you 
             expect (so you try to avoid) more failures.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        38.  Associated behaviors: You may have severe 
             behavioral abnormalities such as fits of rage or of loss of 
             self-control [in severe cases of untreated ADD].  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        39.  Attention: You have variable, poorly controlled 
             attention; sometimes unfocused and sometimes overfocused 
             "locked on").  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        40.  Attention: You don't pay close enough attention 
             to details and make careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, 
             or other activities.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        41.  Attention: You have disabling or distressing 
             inability to pay or sustain attention in tasks or play 
             activities.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        42.  Attention: Others mistake your attention 
             problems for motivation problems (you're unfairly accused of
             not trying or caring).   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        43.  Attentional deficits: You have had problems with 
             paying or sustaining attention since childhood (e.g., 
             problems in school, underachieving report cards).      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        44.  Boredom: You are particularly easily and 
             frequently bored.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        45.  Boredom: Although you are easily bored, you find 
             a variety of mental and physical techniques to keep yourself
             stimulated (e.g., frantic exercising, or shopping).    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        46.  Childhood diagnosis-?why hasn't your ADD been 
             diagnosed before? Perhaps your ADD was mild or compensated 
             by high intelligence or socioeconomic advantage. Perhaps a 
             dysfunctional family, health care system, or school system 
             kept ignoring the clues.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        47.  Compensation: You must work harder than others 
             for success in work or school by using effortful 
             compensatory mechanisms (e.g., overachieving dedication to 
             long hours of homework).      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        48.  Creativity: You have high creativity, intuition, 
             natural intelligence, or puzzle-solving ability (often such 
             exceptional ability compensates for ADD enough that it 
             hadn't previously attracted attention).      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        49.  Daydreaming: You characteristically stare into 
             space and report daydreaming, or have been accused or 
             labeled by authorities as daydreaming or "spacey."     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        50.  Defiance: Defiant behavior may also be present. 
             (DCD)     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        51.  Deficits: You have associated skill difficulties 
             (clue for LD) in reading, writing, math, memory, or 
             organizational skills. (DCD)  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        52.  Dependence: You depend inappropriately on 
             others, not so much for emotional support or mentoring as 
             for quasi-parental discipline.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        53.  Depression: You often feel a pervasive sense of 
             impending doom: "if nothing has gone wrong, it's just about 
             to."      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        54.  Depression: Persons with ADD often feel severely 
             depressed. (DCD)    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        55.  Details: You often fail to give close attention 
             to details in schoolwork or other activities.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        56.  Different: You often feel like an alien who 
             doesn't fit in.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        57.  Discipline: You do better in situations that are 
             structured by others.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        58.  Disorganization: Sometimes the resolution of a 
             conflict makes you feel a lack of directedness with 
             disorganization, emptiness, and boredom (e.g., you feel at a
             serious loss when the crisis is over).  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        59.  Disruptive. You often are, or are regarded as, a 
             seriously disruptive influence.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        60.  Distractibility: Your distractibility might be 
             due to a Learning Disability (DCD) 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        61.  Distractibility: You are very easily distracted 
             and often want to "tune out" in the middle of a page or 
             conversation.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        62.  Hyperfocus: Sometimes you have the ability to 
             hyperfocus ("as if in a trance") on interesting material or 
             topics).  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        63.  Distractibility: Extraneous, unimportant stimuli 
             (e.g., sounds, movement, conversations) often distract you. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        64.  Education: You have always struggled with your 
             education (clue for LD) (DCD) 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        65.  Energy: You appear to have little initiative and 
             poor motivation, or feel you have a low energy level or are 
             sluggish or drowsy (this feels in marked contrast to an 
             internal "hyperactivity" that you perceive as "racing 
             thoughts").    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        66.  Excitement: You crave high stimulation, new 
             thrills, and new sensations; you look for action in the 
             environment that reflects, matches, or organizes your 
             internal energetic, hyperactive disorganization.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        67.  Excitement: You seek high-stimulus situations, 
             needing them to organize and calm you.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        68.  Failure: You suffer an overwhelming sense of 
             failure (even in the face of apparent success).   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        69.  Family history: You have family members (blood 
             relatives) who have had ADD or manic-depressive illness 
             (bipolar disorder), whether formally diagnosed or not. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        70.  Focus: You may be able to focus intently on 
             things you enjoy for a very long time. To focus so well you 
             have to block out other stimuli, so you appear to be in a 
             trance and people often complain that they can't get your 
             attention.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        71.  Focus inconsistent: You may be able to pay 
             attention and concentrate very well one time and very poorly
             the next.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        72.  Focus inconsistent: You are known for "tuning in 
             and out."      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        73.  Following through: Without close supervision, 
             you often have difficulty following through on instructions 
             from others (e.g., you frequently fail to finish homework, 
             chores, or jobs).   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        74.  Following through: Your difficulty following 
             through is not due to deliberately oppositional behavior or 
             failing to understand the instructions, but it may seem that
             way to such authorities as parents and teachers.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        75.  Followthrough: You characteristically have fast 
             starts and many projects going at once, but poor 
             followthrough.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        76.  Forgetful: You are often forgetful 
             (absentminded) in daily activities.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        77.  Friends: You have difficulty making and keeping 
             friends (other people find you difficult).   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        78.  Frustration: You are easily frustrated.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        79.  Hyperactive: You run about or climb excessively 
             in inappropriate situations.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        80.  Hyperactive: You often leave (or can barely 
             resist leaving) your seat in classroom or in other 
             situations where remaining seated is expected (you may have 
             a strong impulse to pace in meetings, for example).    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        81.  Hyperactivity: Anxiety from LD could cause your 
             hyperactivity. (DCD)     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        82.  Hyperactivity: Your childhood hyperactivity may 
             have been integrated, lessened, modified, or evolved into 
             fidgeting; jiggling; tapping; or feeling tense, restless, or
             nervous; with difficulty relaxing or sleeping.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        83.  Hypersensitivity: You overreact to noise and 
             distraction.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        84.  Hypertalkative: You often talk, or are perceived 
             to talk, excessively (loud, long, and a lot).     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        85.  Immature: "Peter Pan syndrome;" some say you 
             have never grown up.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        86.  Immature: Your teachers, employers, parents, or 
             spouse believe you lack maturity or can't work 
             independently.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        87.  Impulsive: You appear to have poor self-control. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        88.  Impulsive: You appear to ignore the impact of 
             your actions or words on others.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        89.  Impulsive: You have problems playing or engaging 
             in leisure activities quietly.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        90.  Impulsive: You have trouble thinking before you 
             speak or act.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        91.  Impulsive: You may do "bad" things impulsively. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        92.  Impulsive: You often blurt out answers to 
             questions before the questions have been completed.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        93.  Impulsive: You often get into dangerous 
             situations because you haven't considered the possible 
             consequences of an action (e.g., run into street without 
             looking).      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        94.  Impulsive: You often have a real problem waiting 
             your turn in games or group interactions (in school, you 
             wave your hand and shout out the answer before being called 
             on).      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        95.  Impulsive: You often interrupt or intrude on 
             others (e.g., butt into conversations or games).  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        96.  Impulsive: You often shift from one uncompleted 
             activity to another.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        97.  Impulsive: Others accuse you of acting 
             impulsively and making snap decisions.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        98.  Inaccurate self-perception. You may "read" 
             situations and the impact of other people with great 
             intuitive insight, but you don't understand or anticipate 
             the impact you have on them.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        99.  Inconsistency: You have strikingly inconsistent 
             performance.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        100. Insight: You have poor insight into how to 
             recognize, understand, or address your ADD symptoms.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        101. Intimacy: You can't sustain close emotional or 
             cognitive contact for very long.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        102. Intimacy: You characteristically become bored, 
             distracted, and discouraged in relationships.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        103. Intimacy: You have real problems developing 
             effective and efficient interpersonal working relationships,
             much less intimate personal relationships.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        104. Intimacy: You withdraw from others, expecting 
             failure in relationships.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        105. Intimacy: You overreact or underreact in 
             interpersonal situations.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        106. Irresponsible: Experience has conditioned you to 
             believe you really are lazy and irresponsible.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        107. Job: You have deficient job performance and 
             satisfaction.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        108. Judgment: You are regarded as often showing poor 
             judgment.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        109. Lazy: You've been called lazy or unmotivated so 
             often you have come to believe it.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        110. Learning disabilities: You may also have some 
             learning disabilities (as do 30% to 80% of children with 
             ADD) (DCD).    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        111. Listen: You don't seem to listen to what is said 
             to you (it's hard to get your attention).    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        112. Loose cannon: People usually assume ADD 
             behaviors are deliberate and controllable. These behaviors 
             keep occurring in spite of your best efforts to conform, to 
             use time efficiently, and to be self-disciplined. This often
             leads others to believe you're a rebel or a "loose cannon on
             the deck" who doesn't care whether or not you perform well 
             on the job.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        113. Loses: You often lose things necessary for tasks 
             or activities at school, home, or the workplace (e.g., toys,
             pencils, books, assignments, or tools).      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        114. Misbehavior: Severely disordered behavior may 
             also be present. (DCD)   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        115. Moods: You have rapidly changing moods 
             (moodiness, mood swings).     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        116. Moods: You have marked mood swings or depressed 
             feelings, especially when leaving someone or winding up a 
             project.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        117. Motivation: Your inconsistency is labeled as not 
             trying.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        118. Motivation: You may lose motivation and stop 
             trying.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        119. Motivation variable: You may seem unmotivated to 
             engage in goal-directed activities (e.g., schoolwork, 
             chores, or work on the job) although your motivation to 
             engage in favored or passive activities (e.g., hobbies, 
             watching television, or listening to music) may be 
             unimpaired.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        120. Organization: You have constant trouble getting 
             organized and suffer a tendency for little things to add up 
             to create what seem like huge obstacles.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        121. Organization: You often have difficulty 
             organizing and completing goal-directed tasks and 
             activities.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        122. Overwhelmed: You have a pervasive sense of being 
             easily overwhelmed by life.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        123. Overwhelmed: You often feel or appear depressed 
             or overwhelmed.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        124. A personality disorder (characteristically 
             inflexible and maladaptive traits and coping strategies that
             lead to distress and disability) may also be present. (DCD)
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        125. Personality: You may suffer associated 
             delinquency (destructiveness) [in severe cases].  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        126. Powerless: You often feel you have no will 
             power.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        127. Procrastination: You characteristically 
             procrastinate (in ADD, an acquired fear response).     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        128. Procrastination: You are known for chronic 
             procrastination, with or without the conscious fear that you
             won't be able to do something right.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        129. Relationships: You have impaired interpersonal 
             relationships or an inability to sustain relationships over 
             time.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        130. Repetition: Developing attention to detail, and 
             a tolerance for repetitive tasks, may be your greatest and 
             most frustrating problem.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        131. Restlessness: Instead of running and climbing 
             about like the ADD child, you have excess nervous energy; 
             pacing, drumming your fingers, and feeling edgy when trying 
             to sit still.  
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        132. Restlessness: You often fidget with hands or 
             feet or squirm in your seat (in adolescents and adults, may 
             be limited to subjective feelings of restlessness).    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        133. Rules: You distrust and dislike structure, 
             rules, and going through the "proper channels."   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        134. Rules: You have little inclination and less 
             motivation to understand and follow rules.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        135. Self-esteem: You have chronic problems with low 
             self-esteem. Years of conditioning told you that you're a 
             lazy, weird, undisciplined klutz, and now you believe it. 
             Frustration and underachievement convince you there's not 
             much hope to get better.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        136. Self-esteem: You have pervasively eroded self-
             esteem.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        137. Self-righteousness: You say whatever comes to 
             mind without considering its impact, appropriateness, or 
             timing.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        138. Self-righteousness: You are noted for self-
             righteous candor.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        139. Self-worth: You are unable to sustain a sense of 
             self-worth.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        140. Stress: You have marked intolerance for stress 
             (easily "stressed out").      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        141. Tasks: You are often unable to complete tasks. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        142. Temper: You have a characteristically hot or 
             explosive temper (you're a "hot-head").      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        143. Temper: Your temper often gets you into trouble. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        144. Unconventional: Not many people understand that 
             ADDults often can't or won't do things in the conventional 
             way, so they think you're unconventional, odd, or eccentric.
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        145. Underachievement: Despite superior conceptual 
             ability, imagination, and creativity, you do poorly in 
             school and at work because you fail to focus on other 
             people's details. Then you may become damaged by criticism, 
             develop a negative self-image as a "loser," and end up 
             labeled as lazy, poorly motivated, and underachieving. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        146. Underachievement: You have a sense of 
             underachievement and of not meeting your personal goals (it 
             feels as if you aren't doing as well as you could or as if 
             you get results that don't reflect your efforts).      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        147. Underachievement: You have bounced around in 
             many different jobs or careers.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        148. Underachievement: Despite your best efforts, you 
             consistently perform below your potential, or your 
             restlessness thwarts your relationships and career.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        149. Underachievement: You never really seem to get 
             ahead, catch a break, or realize your true potential. 
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        150. Underachievement: You dislike and try to avoid 
             tasks (such as schoolwork or homework) that require 
             sustained mental effort.      
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        151. Underachievement as a student: You have never 
             been a good student (clue for LD) (DCD).     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        152. Underachievement: You get distracted from your 
             plans.    
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        153. Underachievement: Your distractibility, 
             hyperactivity, impulsivity, difficulty learning from 
             experience, and not picking up on social cues ("Rebel 
             without a clue") lead to frequent failure.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        154. Undisciplined: You lack self-discipline.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        155. Unmanageable: Your finances and personal 
             relationships are in shambles.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        156. Unmotivated: You feel, and are felt to be, 
             unmotivated and lazy, never doing today what you can put off
             until tomorrow.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        157. Worry: You have a marked tendency to worry 
             needlessly and endlessly.     
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
        158. Wrong: You're always wondering what's wrong with 
             you, your life revolves around crises, and you 
             characteristically feel unsuccessful.   
             SA   A    D    SD 
        
                     **QUESTIONNAIRE ENDS**
        
              Notes: SA = Strongly Agree or Certainly Applicable, to 
        a significantly disabling or distressing degree. A = Agree 
        or Probably Applicable to a moderately disabling or 
        distressing degree. D = Disagree or Probably Not Applicable 
        (or, if applicable at all, only to a dubiously disabling or 
        distressing degree). SD = Strongly Disagree or Certainly Not 
        Applicable. ADD = Attention Deficit Disorder (with or 
        without hyperactivity). ADDults = Adults with ADD. 
        ADDolescents = Adolescents with ADD. (DCD) = Differential 
        Comorbidity Diagnosis (what else could be going on). LD = 
        learning disability. 
        
                          **ADDENDA**
        
        A .  Summary of What Attention Deficit Disorder is: A 
        disorder of HIA (Hyperactivity, Impulsivity, and Attentional 
        difficulty) or HID (Hyperactivity, Impulsivity, and 
        Distractibility) pervasively and chronically impairing 
        function, present since childhood. 
        
        B.   ADD is frequently associated with other types of 
        learning disorders: 
        
        1.   Language: verbal interpretation, 
        comprehension, or expression 
        
        2.   Spatial orientation: Visual processing 
        
        3.   Memory: Retrieval of specific kinds of 
        information 
        
        4.   Fine motor control: Handwriting, trouble 
        controlling pencil, breakdown between head and paper 
        
        5.   Sequencing: Order, following instructions, 
        time organization, math, slow learning of days of the week, 
        months of the year, telling time, class locations 
        
        C.   Basic Patterns in the Course (progression over 
        the years) of ADD: 
        
        Course 1: All symptoms clear in adolescence; or 
        
        Course 2: Hyperactivity clears but inattention, 
        impulsivity, and social impairment persist into adolescence 
        and adulthood; or 
        
        Course 3: All symptoms persist into adulthood. 
        
                            **END**
        
