On July 25, the American Psychoanalytic Association lifted the decades-long rule that members should not comment on the mental health of public figures. Even before then, some experts had suggested the 45th President demonstrates symptoms of undiagnosed ADHD. Here, we probe the DSM-V and public records looking for answers.

If Republicans and Democrats agree on anything, it is this: There has never been a President of the United States quite like Donald J. Trump.

Trump’s brazen, shoot-from-the-hip style appealed to many voters fed up with Washington politics-as-usual. And since his inauguration, Trump has made a show of breaking the rules — shaking up the political establishment with everything from unorthodox decisions to off-the-cuff comments to full-blown international scandals.

As the political maelstrom continues to churn, some pundits have questioned the president’s mental state and wondered aloud whether he has a diagnosable mental health condition. Some ADHD experts, including George Sachs, Psy.D., and Ben Michaelis, Ph.D., posit that Donald Trump might be running the country with undiagnosed ADHD.

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And they’re not alone. Multiple other sources — from Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, to NATO officials — have cited the President’s short attention span, impulsive tendencies, restless behavior, and daily dopamine fix via Twitter. And the President himself has credited his long-standing distractible nature for his business success, saying in his 2004 book Think Like a Billionaire: “Most successful people have very short attention spans.”

Of course, no one can or should diagnose any mental health condition without a full evaluation, and nothing in Trump’s public medical records indicate he has ever been diagnosed with ADHD. But Trump, age 71, grew up in a time when the ADHD diagnosis was rare. In fact, the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM) didn’t recognize the precursor to attention deficit disorder, “kinetic impulse disorder,” until Trump was 22 years old. Yet many observers and close contacts of the now-president believe that behaviors he’s exhibited since childhood — ranging from the impulsive to the inattentive — could indicate underlying attention deficit.

The editors at ADDitude, a 19-year-old publication dedicated to ADHD news and information, are not trained clinicians; we cannot make a diagnosis. Nor would we ask our esteemed scientific advisory board to do so without first conducting a thorough in-person evaluation. Since that is unlikely, we’ve combed through the DSM’s latest ADHD diagnosis guidelines looking for clues and insight.

According to the DSM-V, an individual may qualify for an ADHD diagnosis only if five or more symptoms under one or more of the categories below are present before age 12, are present in more than one setting (i.e. work and home), and “interfere with, or reduce the quality of, social, school, or work functioning.” Read the DSM-V diagnosis criteria below, and make your own judgment of the President’s habits and behaviors.