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Letter: Desperate parents suffer too

Scientists speculate that Mozart suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder, one symptom of which is an inability to complete tasks. This makes his 600-plus immaculately completed works composed in a mere 30 years an even more remarkable feat than previously supposed.

Philip Best

New Malden, Surrey

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