The ADHD Skills Lab
The ADHD Skills Lab
Skye Waterson
ADHD Diagnosis Criteria Explained By People Who Actually Have It Part 2
31 minutes Posted Jun 24, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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You've reread the same paragraph three times and still couldn't tell anyone what it said. Skye and Robbie return to the DSM-5 for Part 2 of their criteria breakdown, this time on criterion B: difficulty sustaining attention. They work through real examples, rereading pages, checking out of meetings, losing focus on audiobooks even at double speed, and land on why none of it happens during a good movie or video game. The conversation distinguishes between attention that drifts because a task i...