Defiance, aggressiveness, and cruelty. Before the early nineteen hundreds a person with these characteristics would be thought to be evil or even the work of the devil himself. Today, we know that these are just a few of the many symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, also know as ADHD. Between now and the early nineteen hundreds and few years before, ADHD has gone through many changes such as its name, the way people view the disorder, its symptoms, and the treatments for it. It is very important to know about Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder because it is a very common disorder seen among people since almost the beginning of time.
             The disorder that today is known by us as ADHD has had many different name changed throughout the years. Tracing back to the year nineteen hundred and two George Frederic Still described Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder as a "Defection in Moral Control." This name was given based upon children misbehaving and not having any self-control. "After the Encephalitis Epidemic in nineteen hundred and seventeen and eighteen, doctors noted that many children showed symptoms of ADHD (de Armas, Valerie). From this discovery "Defection in Moral Control" went on to be known as the "Post Encephalitis Disorder." More in time, during the nineteen fifties, "Hyperactivity was accepted as a type of brain damage Syndrome."(Walls, James) "The Hyperactive Child Syndrome," was later then described in the nineteen sixties. About twenty years later in the nineteen eighties, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders II (DSM-II), which is the "American Psychiatric Association's uniform diagnostic system for assessing specific symptoms and matching them with different mental disorders" (Plotnik, Rob), recognized the disorder as Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood Disorder. A few years later during the late ninet...