Dr. Alex George

Of course, ADHD was described as a collection of symptoms, right?

The attention deficit and the hyperactive kid bouncing around the room.

There seemed to be a feature.

But actually, we've already described rejection sensitivity as probably the worst thing.

Many of the common features people talk about in ADHD aren't recognized in those early diagnostic processes and aren't recognized in the naming.

So perhaps is it possible there's, you know, this kind of idea of autism and ADHD being a combination experience or many people actually having both that don't realize that

I kind of wonder that.

And in myself, I wanted to understand.

And so I look at my dad and I believe firmly that he is likely to have autism and ADHD.

He's not been assessed, but I believe that.

And I wanted to understand.

And so after a long time of thinking about it, I've gone for the assessment.

My psychiatrist said, look, I think you probably are on the spectrum, on the autistic spectrum.

I think it's worth you doing the assessment for understanding.

And I was kind of like, oh, am I going to do this though?

Because with ADHD, I kind of understood why a bit more.

And she said, listen, did you regret doing the ADHD assessment?

I said, no.

What has been the greatest thing that's come from the ADHD diagnosis?

I said, understanding.