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Essay Archive - Attention Deficit Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder
During the last one hundred years scientists and doctors have been studying why some people can not stay still and pay attention. The first documented mention in a Medical text of Attention Deficit Disorder was in 1904 in the British journal Lancet.
"Let me see if Philip can
Be a little gentleman;
Let me see if he is able
To sit still for once at the table."
Thus Papa bade Phil behave;
And Mama looked very grave.
But Fidgety Phil,
He won't sit still;
He wiggles,
And giggles,
And then, I declare,
Swings backwards and forwards,
And tilts up his cha....
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