ABSTRACT
Social skills can be even more critical for adults with ADD. By paying attention to your effect on others, by cooperating with them, and by showing consideration and tolerance of differences, you can build up goodwill, like credit in the bank, that you can later draw on if your ADD inadvertently causes problems for others. If your coworkers know you, feel close to you, like you, and trust you, then you have a lot more leeway to make mistakes-and opportunity to learn from those mistakes. By making sure that your positives outweigh the negatives, some of your mistakes will be either tolerated or overlooked.
