Please define the two words - attention deficit

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Can you please define the two words - attention deficit - as clearly as possible?

Attention deficit simply means it's difficult to pay attention. You have deficits in your attention span so you can only focus for a short period of time, if at all. It interferes with concentration.

I find "attention deficit" to be a poor name for what happens. It's more like I have too much attention and it wants to be everywhere at once.

Perhaps it should be called "attention direction disorder?"

I like that.

One researcher kept renaming it in one of his longer lectures. Intention deficit disorder, motivation deficit disorder. I don't remember everything he came up with.

He made the point that even though the name is very inaccurate, they can't change it without disenfranchising the people who have it because the laws and insurance policies and such use the existing name. So we're stuck with a misleading (and somewhat trivializing) name.

Chaos.
Being spread too thinly over too many subjects, and none of them get changed, advanced or completed as a result.
Forever flitting between things of intense interest but landing on none.

Will that do?