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Why an ADHD diagnosis can be a mixed blessing
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Joseph Aquilina hates the term attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Aquilina feels that the two Ds in the term ADHD suggest dysfunction. He prefers his own term: attention difference hyperdrive.
Aquilina's ADHD diagnosis came at the age of 37, 16 years after his diagnosis with dyslexia. The fast-talking Londoner had long thought that his difficulties with focus, memory and planning were due to dyslexia, until the people in his life started asking more questions about his behaviour.
Rosenberg: Ukraine's advance undermines Putin's image as 'Mr Security'
Kursk.
It is one of the first words I wrote and spoke as a BBC correspondent.
In 2000, I reported on the sinking of the Kursk submarine in the icy waters of the Barents Sea. One hundred and eighteen submariners were killed.
Vladimir Putin had been president for less than half a year. I can still remember Russian TV channels slamming him over his handling of the disaster.
