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What contributes to ADHD?

  Here are the DSM-V criteria for ADHD.  I am curious in comparing how my husband and I display different "flavors" of ADHD and how that might correlate with our personalities. Here are the symptoms my husband Greg displays.  He is carelessly inattentive, cannot sustain attention (not really even interested), with poor follow through, very little interest in scheduling or organizing his time, major procrastination and easily distractible. He is also a squirmy person, talking too loudly and too much when socializing, blurting out answers (guesses) and interrupting others. I'm cross posting this on my ADHD blog. Greg is an INFJ with this pattern.  Greg has dominant Ni (introverted iNtuition) compared to my Si.  I think that contributes to his flavor of space cadet. His animal stack is: blast, sleep, consume, play last. I wonder if low consume contributes to ADHD (though high consume would also, just a different flavor). See:  A couple with different flavors o...