And it sort of is - most people get distractable on occasion and feel like this - ADHD is being constantly stuck in that state (with varying intensities). It's similar to the issues of empathy around depression, people get sad and get over it - that's not clinical depression it's just being sad... but since they're confusable people assume that the things they did to get out of sadness themselves will work on people with depression - but no, petting a puppy sadly doesn't fix clinical depression... everyone likes to pet a puppy though, so don't stop bringing people with depression puppies... it's just not going to suddenly switch the person into being fine.