Another famous confirmed living person with ADHD. I think the only thing he’s slightly infamous for is revealing Janet Jackson’s nipple during the superbowl.

In an interview with Collider magazine for his new movie the Love Guru, Justin Timberlake said that he had ADHD and OCD.

Question: Do you have the OCD where you have to fix everything? (he’s adjusting all the recorders that got put down in front of him)

Justin Timberlake: I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that.

I’m sure there are many problems with having them both but I can see at least one common ADD problem he probably doesn’t to worry about. Clutter.

Name: Clarence Page

Famous for: Winning a Pulitzer Prize. Twice.

Confirmed: Positively ADD Real Success Stories to Inspire Your Dreams. 2006. By Catherine A. Corman and Ed Hallowell p.148-156

Work: Is a columnist at the Chicago Tribune, Syndicated in 170 papers. National TV commentator, Actor (Rising Sun)

Wikipedia entry some details below

Awards:

* 1989 Pulitzer Prize for commentary
* 1987 American Civil Liberties Union James P. McGuire Award for columns on constitutional rights
* 1980 Illinois UPI Award for community service for The Black Tax
* 1976 Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting on the changing politics of Southern Africa
* 1972 Pulitzer Prize for a Chicago Tribune Task Force series on voter fraud

There are already a few lists out there of famous people with ADD-ADHD but most of those people are dead and as far as I know most did not confirm they had ADD when they were alive. Yes I know that when you read about what Thomas Edison was like, it sure sounds to me like he had ADD, but I don’t know that for sure.

There is so much negative stigma and misinformation around ADD. It often seems like it’s easier to say you’re addicted to crack cocaine or you’re an alcoholic or a gambling addict than you have an inherited neurobiological condition like ADD.