ADHD is diagnosed based on 18 symptoms, with at least five required for adults, causing dysfunction or distress in multiple life areas.

“as an adult you need to have at least five of them and when we say have them all of these are things that normal people can display at any time so any of us might interrupt someone might have trouble sitting might have trouble attending to a task but to meet the criteria these have to be displayed in excessive amount of time in or to an excessive degree to the extent that they're causing some dysfunction or distress and that they have to be displayed in multiple Realms of life”