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9. "I may have to be somewhere, miles away, at 9:00 a.m., but as long as it is not yet nine, I fully believe I have time enough. One is either hopelessly short of time, dashing about like a deaf bat, or else acts as if blessed with the gift of eternity."

10. "It’s as if one’s time sense never developed past a stage other people leave behind in early childhood." (To the very young child, any block of time seems infinite.)

11. "ADD children are less likely to have the comfort and support that only loving grandparents can give." "They do not see their brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers as often as others tend to. When they do see their families, the interaction tends not to be satisfactory."

12. "For a person with ADD, tuning out is an automatic brain activity that originated during the period of rapid brain development in infancy when there was emotional hurt combined with helplessness."

13. "Many people with ADD have noticed that a strange drowsiness may come over them in the midst of some emotionally charged situations, as, for example, during a conflict with a spouse."

14. "John Ratey has aptly observed that **“I’m sorry” is the most common phrase in the vocabulary of attention deficit disorder."

15. "They apologize when I ask them to speak louder, when they cannot easily answer a question, when I interrupt their flow of speech to ask for more information, when I tell them that we will wind up the session in a few minutes as time is running out."

16. "Too much praise can be almost as harmful as too much criticism. They seem opposite, but the underlying message is the same: the parent puts a high value not on who the child is, but on what he does."