It angers me that in New Zealand people do not recognize ADD among adults, there seems to be a misguided belief that this disorder disappears as we get older. As someone who has ADD I can tell you that this is not true, I was diagnosed with ADD at 12 and at 24 I still struggle with it every day. I have simply gotten better at managing my ADD, however because of this and the fact that I have managed to succeed academically, many of my relatives and friends don't believe that I have ADD. Luckily I have the support and guidance of my father who also has ADD. From what I have seen there is either little or no support for adults with ADD in my country. In college I met many people with ADD who had worked very hard to get to where they were only to find themselves suddenly without support and when they did make the effort to reach out to specialists they were treated as though they were simply trying to get drugs. There needs to be more consistent information out there and specialists need to realize that this isn't something that magically goes away when you turn eighteen.