The ADHD Skills Lab

From 'Minimal Brain Damage' to ADHD: How the Diagnosis Has Evolved Since 1980


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You've reread the same paragraph three times and still couldn't tell anyone what it said.

Skye and Robbie return to the DSM-5 for Part 2 of their criteria breakdown, this time on criterion B: difficulty sustaining attention. They work through real examples, rereading pages, checking out of meetings, losing focus on audiobooks even at double speed, and land on why none of it happens during a good movie or video game.

The conversation distinguishes between attention that drifts because a task is boring and attention that locks in because something is stimulating, and why that distinction matters more than effort or discipline. If you've ever wondered why you can sit through eight hours of a game but not eight minutes of a report, this explains the mechanism.

What We Cover:

  • Why criterion B shows up in reading, meetings, and lectures specifically
  • Why audiobooks don't solve the problem, even at 2x speed
  • Why games and gripping movies don't trigger the same drift
  • The difference between voluntary distraction and involuntary attention loss
  • Why removing stimulation (a quiet room) often backfires

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