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Their challenge is to learn ways to distribute their attention more evenly, by regulating it or even manipulating it to serve their purposes according to the task at hand, often through the use of practical tools like timers, calendars, reminders, alarms, and breaking tasks into concrete steps. It's not about not being able to concentrate it's about being able to concentrate in different forms and different intensity." Put another way, there is a spectrum along which attention gets channeled for human beings those diagnosed with ADHD don't have less attention than normal - it's more accurate to say that their attention can be splintered or hyperfocused, or it can swing between the two. "It's not about having an attention deficit, it's more a maldistribution of attention. "The field is wide open and people really need to start researching it," Sklar told Science of Us. One of the few pieces of research on the hyperfocus piece of ADHD is from South Africa, and was the subject of a University of Johannesburg master's thesis by researcher and writer Rony Sklar - indeed, much of her work has raised the question of why hyperfocus isn't being looked at in the literature, since her own work was limited by sample size.