The Big Read: Thinking outside the rules

Do you have ADHD? In all my years of speaking to large school audiences, this was the first time a primary school child had the courage to ask such a very personal question, after an admittedly energetic speech in which I left the stage and took the microphone for a walk. But this was not any school; it was Cedar House School in Kenilworth, Cape Town, and whether I had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder was a fair question.