Thank you for highlighting that virtually everyone engages in ADHD behaviors at least some of the time, and it is only if they have pervasive and excessive patterns of these behaviors in multiple settings that we can make a diagnosis.

On the other hand, there is some suggestive evidence that our modern world is training many brains to become more ADHD-like, with cell phones/social media at the top of the list. So at least two things are happening. 1) People who had milder cases of ADHD - often below the official cut-off for the diagnosis, are being pushed into full blown ADHD, and 2) People who had minimal to no ADHD symptoms are now being trained to behave in ADHD-like ways, and through the power of neuroplasticity, might be changing their brains.s