. >> there was a category of flk. are you familiar with that? funny looking kids. >> who discovered it and when? >> symptoms of adhd have been around for over a century. >> fidgety phil was first described back in the 1800s. >> don't kids grow out of a.d.d.? >> the adult will be able to better control it, so when you look at it as an outsider, you say, "it's not there anymore," but it is still there, but the way it is presenting itself is different. >> why did it take so long to recognize it? >> when you get to be about 13 or 14 years old, you get self-conscious. you start looking at yourself, and you do something to try to cover up or hide the fact that you're different. why is there so much confusion? >> this is a disorder that's been going around for hundreds of years. we've just not be able to peg it easily because the names keep changing, or we don't describe it very well. >> and we're probably in our toddlerhood with our understanding of this. i think we're maybe past our infancy, but we're not mature with our understanding of this. >> is