Providing a place for people affected by ADD and ADHD to share ideas and frustrations with one another, ADDforums.com is a free forum and open to the public. Users are asked to register for a username and with a password in order to post on the ADDforums. Currently, the ADD forums have over 57,000 members with more than 82,000 threads and over 1 million posts. The ADDforums also feature polls such as “At What Age Were You First Prescribed ADHD Medication?” to which the most frequent responses are currently age “13-18” (at 30% of responses) and age “19-24” (also at 30% of responses).
ADD and ADHD are developmental disorders which involve attention problems and often hyperactivity. Symptoms of the disorder start before the age of seven. ADHD currently affect between 3-5% of children globally. Anywhere from 30 to 50 % of people who are diagnosed with ADHD in childhood continue to have issues with the disorder into adulthood. The ADDforums.com website allows those people who suffer from the disorder as well as family and friends of people who have the disorder to talk about treatment options, relationship and social issues, education, the impact of the disorder on their career and jobs, parenting issues, medications, and a variety of other ADHD issues.
ADDforums also provide dedicated forums for co-existing conditions including bipolar disorders, autism, aspergers, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, eating disorders, learning disabilities, tourettes, personality disorders, and sleep disorders. Such co-existing conditions may be called Comorbid disorders and they can significantly complicate both the diagnosis and treatment of ADHA which is why ADDforums.com provides a valuable resource of information to help inform people about not only ADD but also the potential co-existing conditions associated with the disorder. 
