Age: 19 Gender: Female Location: Honolulu, Hawaii Background: This nineteen year old college student attending Hawaii Pacific University has had ADHD throughout her whole life and required two tablets of medication daily in her most recent years in order to function. She was always a great student, but she had to work much harder than [...]

Age: 22 Gender: Female Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Background: Diagnosed with a learning disability in high school and later diagnosed with ADHD, this second year university student suffered from a very poor memory. She had trouble remembering past events and things that happened to her. As a result, she lacked confidence in her cognitive abilities [...]

Age: 24 Gender: Male Location: Bedfordview, South Africa Background: Throughout his whole life, this 24 year old man was plagued by problems with concentration and hyperactivity. He was on Ritalin for a while but said that it did not really help with his attention problems. His progress was hindered when he lost his mother at [...]

Age: 19 Gender: Male Location: South Bend, Indiana Background: This young man, a freshman at Notre Dame University, has superior intellectual ability, but was constrained by his poor working memory capacity.  He suffered from an anxiety disorder, ADHD, poor auditory working memory, and slow processing speed. He is a high achieving young man, but was [...]

Age: 20 Gender: Male Location: Cleveland, Ohio Background: A college student from Cleveland, Ohio found working his summer job to be a source of anxiety and even embarrassment. Diagnosed with ADHD in the third grade, he would frequently lose his train of thought and forget to complete seemingly simple tasks. As an employee of a [...]