Rick, our son, now 24 has it and the mando player (40 something) in our band has it. Luke was diagnosed at age 6 in first grade. I knew something was wrong when he came home from school the first day of Kindergarden. A formerly happy, healthy boy was SO ANGRY I couldn't believe it. Took almost 2 yrs to get a diagnosis. He did the Ritalin thing until about 7th grade when I couldn't force him to take it anymore.

He had serious problems graduating from high school, but he finally did. He has also had numerous brushes with the Law due to an intolerance for Authority. He has never outgrown any of it, but did finally get Anger Management Counseling and has learned a lot of control with behaviour modification.

The 40 yr. old mando player knew for years that something was wrong but it was not dianosed until about 5 yrs ago. She was a teacher in high school and not very effective at all. The kids all said anybody could get straight A's in her class and do nothing at all. They made a lot of fun of her. Ritalin mostly seems not to work with people over puberty, but sometimes antihistamines do. They did not for her, and she is learning behaviour modification now too. Says it's helping some, but is a slow process.

And some children do outgrow all the symptoms, but not many. Most will outgrow a few symptoms and with help from parents and teachers can learn to re route a lot of behaviours.