Dr. Alex George

because it's impossible to come deep with someone if you're presenting something else and again it's different i think to a pure adhd presentation where you're bending to conform this is about who are you who are you really who's behind there truly you know there's a lot of overlap and actually the truth is there'll be a lot of overlap because i suspect many people watching this who have adhd probably would have asd as well i would you wouldn't be surprised look at the co-concurrence rates very very high and ocd as well of course

I experience that one specifically a lot.

Yeah.

I mean, my life is entirely confusing from the outside.

You've got this young, sensitive, quiet boy from West Wales who would be terrified to go to a new sports club or to join in on a team sport, who was very nervous about having friends over, didn't want to go and stay at other people's houses.

who ended up being on a massive television show, being very well known, putting myself in situations of doing talks in front of hundreds of people and writing books and podcasting and all these different things that I've done.

It's all a massive, confusing mess in a way.

And I think that probably...

It's a mixture of things, but at the core of it, I am someone who wants to, I want to live a life that is meaningful.

And I think that sounds very like, that can sound a bit like, I don't know what the word is, but I really feel it's important to me to like do something with the time that I have.

I think one of the things actually, so I was asked the question,

And in the assessment, what are you most afraid of?

And I said, time.

My immediate reaction, I'm afraid of time and specifically losing it.

And that has actually been a crippling experience because sometimes it's very hard to motivate and do something for the ADHD, but also I'm very obsessed about not wasting time.

I can't lie in in the morning.

I get up at 7 of 6.37 every single morning.

I can't have a lie in because I have a terrible fear of time.

My worst nightmare is oversleeping and alarm and waking up at 11.

And that'll be on a Saturday, not on a working day.