I have a 13 year old daughter that bounces off the walls, can't stay focused or sit still for any length of time, yet she is extremely bright. It's hereditary and she gets it from me. I couldn't sit still in school, was always in trouble for talking and was generally scatter brained. In my day, there was no term for it or treatment. They just said I'm hyper & sent me to the principal. Generally the kids like me learned to cope and deal with the hyperness or self medicated with alcohol or drugs or did like me and simply dropped out of school. Call it what you want; ADD, ADHD, Hyper, sensory perception disconnect or whatever, but here's the deal. The condition is REAL. It's the treatment that comes into question and heated debate. We had our daughter taken to a clinical psychologist. I watched the evaluation process and there was no question in my mind that my daughter had a problem. She has been treated with Aderol and now with Stratera which is a non-stimulant. She is under the watchful eye of a wonderful & very gifted pediatrician. They very carefully monitor her dosage, health and overall condition. I don't like the idea of just dosing kids without any clinical evaluation or medical evaluation. I do know that my daughter went from flunking to being in a gifted program. You have to do the reserch and make the choices yourself, but I suggest finding a well educated pediatrician in this subject and also a child specialty clinical psychologist to do an overall evaluation. As for me, I still am scattered brained. I'll go out to the garage to get a screwdriver to fix the door knob and the next think I know, I'm fooling with a carburetor. I can set a wrench down and two seconds later I can't find it! With age I've learned ways to deal with it, but not without a cost and a lot of effort, I did go on to complete a 4 year apprenticeship. So please have your child professionally evaluated. It's the treatment you'll have to decide upon with careful counseling and research. Ignoring it isn't the answer. I have a neighbor that has a son with these symptons and they choose to ignore it and say, "Oh, he's just an active boy". This isn't the answer either as he is flunking school and may end up like I did....self medicating with booze and quitting school!! Just my two cents worth!!