My temporary job at Ohio State had ended. I got married and took on the raising of 5 kids who didn’t want a step mom. Didn’t help that my son. Stephen, aka Big Steve, had no interest in having siblings. (The family stuff would eventually work itself out in loving ways.) Bowser Junior himself is also prone to this. In "Bowser Junior's Candy Bar!", he says that he would not want anything at the gas station (Chef Pee Pee went there with him to buy something), but a Gilligan Cut occurs and he gets distracted by the candy being sold there. He winds up stealing a Hershey's candy bar. Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes has definite traits of this, though he's most often distracted by his own fantasies and daydreams rather than anything external. Dan Carlin's hardcore history says that the Romans describe Germanic invaders in more or less this way. Tall, strong, unbelievably brave, skillful with weapons, a monstrous horde descending on Rome! Then they get distracted by Spain for a few years.

Valerie has ADHD and can't focus on her studies. She usually gets distracted by cute things or cute people. David suffers from this problem while trying to study at the beginning of The Magic Map. Not because he has ADHD, but because his geography book is so boring that it’s legitimately more fun to watch two ants carrying a twig. We all see students in television shows and movies sitting in neat little rows, listening attentively to the teacher, and answering questions. But somehow, the directors always fail to capture the huge distractions teachers deal with on a daily basis. Joey Pigza, the title character from his series of books has ADHD and a central point of the series is his ongoing struggle to think before he acts and learn to calm down. By the end of the first book, he changes his medication and then a central element in the second book is his newfound ability to calm down and think. Hammy in Over the Hedge behaves in a hyper, caffeinated manner and exhibits Hollywood's definition of ADD. A plot point relies on giving caffeine to th— SQUIRREL!!

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Greebo from Discworld tends to keep his cat personality even when human, which leads to a somewhat ADD-esque behaviour pattern. The distract spell (3.5th Edition, Spell Compendium) can give this condition to several foes, making them fascinated by everything around them for a short moment. It inflicts serious penalties on skills such as Concentration, Spot, Listen and Search, and makes them unable to act as much as normal since they can get distracted even mid-combat. Katt vs. Dogg: Both Molly and Oscar are easily distracted by small animals. It's what got them lost in the woods in the first place (Molly got lost chasing a butterfly, and Oscar got lost chasing a flying squirrel). In Fire Engine By Mistake, a fire engine driving through the countryside is such a novelty that sheep stop nibbling, cows stop chewing, and horses stop dusting each other with their tails. In The League of Peoples 'Verse, the entire Cashling species suffer from this: always bored, easily distracted, and unable to focus their attention on anything for very long.

Goblins of Pathfinder have this problem, to the point where nothing can hold their attention for more than a few seconds. This ADOS even shows up in the middle of combat, when a goblin may waste a turn to do something completely stupid. While not a commentary on ADHD, there was a strip from The Far Side showing a group of warriors storming a castle, running across the moat bridge while one guy points to the water and exclaims "Ooh, goldfish, everyone, goldfish!" Gary Larson stated that he's fond of that one because "that's me on the bridge." The Kender race in the Dragonlance setting embodies this trope. They even have a racial ability to "Detect Shiny". In Anne Bishop's The Others Series, the Crowgard fit this behaviour to a T. Really reinforced by the revelation that the Crowgard of the Lakeside Courtyard run a shop called Sparkle and Junk.Garfield was grateful for the trope when a dog that was chasing him suddenly decided to chase the mailman instead. The dog then decided to chase a squirrel instead of the mailman. This is actually accurate in the case of Sigvald the Magnificent, who at random times during the battle will actually become so distracted by how awesome and shiny his armour is that he will stop fighting and demand that his henchmen polish it and tell him how wonderful he is.