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Great Debate! Welcome to ADHD Awareness Month!

Trump displayed more frequent and severe ADHD symptoms than Biden in their first presidential debate.

John Kruse MD, PhD
4 min readOct 4, 2020
Image by Meridy Scott from Pixabay

To celebrate National ADHD Awareness Month this October, we’re in Cleveland tonight to launch our series of three infomercials highlighting features of ADHD. The content of the infomercials will be three debates between ADHD-in-Action Award Winner, and defending champ, Donald Trump, and, well frankly, the best the Democrats could come up with in this challenge, Joe Biden. For tonight’s contest we’ll see who can cram the most ADHD symptoms into a 90 minute episode.

So step right up ladies and gentlemen. Plenty of seats up front, you can get real close. Well maybe not that close. And puhleeeze keep your masks on.

Let’s hear a round of applause for our sponsor, A.P.P.L.A.U.S.E.- the Association for Publicizing, Politicizing and Legitimizing ADHD by Understanding Symptoms of its Expression.

We’ll be using the 18 symptoms from the official DSM-5 definition of ADHD to score this round. To match the style of the evening, the judges will just shout out the category and the grade.

What’s this? The judges are conferring, and have decided to give Mr. Trump a point for “Avoiding tasks requiring sustained…

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John Kruse MD, PhD
John Kruse MD, PhD

Written by John Kruse MD, PhD

Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, gay father of twins, marathon runner, in Hawaii. 200+ ADHD & mental health videos https://www.youtube.com/@DrJohnKruse

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