Alex Partridge

Stop doing that.

That's a weird way to do it.

Even though the way that they're doing something might be right and effective, but it's just different.

How might...

exposure to so many corrective messages like that have an effect on someone's emotional sensitivities?

Is that related to demand avoidance?

Is that just another way of framing pathological demand avoidance?

Could it actually be a trigger or a response to a perceived criticism?

I was thinking of my weekly hunt for my car in the multi-story car park that still takes place every week after I come out of the gym.

The criticisms that many people with ADHD are exposed to, though, we talk a lot of, and we mentioned this in your first interview, rejection sensitivity dysphoria.

It's a horrible emotional response, pain, to real or perceived criticism.

How does the topic of rejection sensitivity dysphoria show up in your practice?

How do people explain it to you?

In lots of different ways.

It feels like your brain can convince you a hundred times per day that everyone hates you and thinks that you're a piece of trash for no other reason other than vibes.

You sense a tiny shift in tone of voice or a slightly heavier footstep and you think that

they're mad at you.

And it can be really debilitating.

I walked through a train station the other month and I saw a man, he recognized me and he said, are you the guy who talks about ADHD?

And I said, yes.