[Andrew]

My adult ADD responds well to drug treatment (I take Concerta), so the issue is perhaps not as pressing for me as for you, but I do know that there are also a lot of non-drug options for behavior modification, etc., that have been shown to be effective. When I was first diagnosed a few years ago, I read a book called OUT OF THE FOG by Kevin R. Murphy, Ph.D., which contains a pretty good general discussion of the disorder as well as tips and strategies for treatment and coping. I’ve also found (much to my surprise) that nuts help. It sounds crazy, but if I eat a handful of nuts (peanuts, cashews, almonds, whatever), I find myself a little better able to concentrate for maybe an hour. That may be totally psychosomatic, or it may be just me, but it might be worth a shot…

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While it would be great if everyone could do everything possible to help out everyone else, there are a limited number of hours in the day, and given its limited utility, it’s not realistic to expect a great number of hearing people to learn ASL. Sign language can’t replace spoken language entirely for a number of reasons (not least among them communication with the blind, telephones, and broken lines of sight), and the burden of learning a new language that most people will use only in specialized situations is a large one. If we can’t manage to make English an official language in this country, I don’t think ASL has much hope. (Also, it’s possible to communicate without speaking or ASL by writing things down, which is a stopgap measure but doesn’t require the huge overhead of time and resources that would be required to teach the general public ASL.)

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