What is the difference between a "normal" over-active child and a child with ADHD?

Part of being a child is pushing boundaries, being full of energy, not doing what your told, and having tantrums because they haven't learned to emotionally hide/control/repress their feelings. What is the difference between this and a child being diagnosed with ADHD? Like the spurious Aspergers Syndrome, M.E. and "personality disorders" is ADHD just another ficticious label to apply to children who don't do what they're told to help parents excuse their responsibility and

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