Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

Really common.

And if you look at it, right, so what I like about this is like an unrecognized symptom of ADHD is literally if we pull out the DSM, excessive guilt or paranoia that you're always doing something wrong is not going to be a diagnostic feature.

That won't be part of the DSM criteria.

Does that make sense?

So I think this kind of stuff can be good on the internet.

I think people get a lot of things wrong, but this is pretty good.

Okay, so this is a fun one.

The complete inability to engage with a topic I see no practical use for or have any interest in.

Okay?

So this is an attention direction issue, but I want to pull up a paper real quick that I want to show you all.

The primary brain-based challenge of self-regulation.

You can pay attention when you want to.

That phrase painfully reverberates throughout the life trajectory of people with ADHD, but this is the quote that I really like.

In a sense, then, there is a kernel of truth to the perception that ADHD adults can do something when they want to do it.

As one middle-aged man with a late diagnosis of ADHD put it, I overdo what I want and I underdo what I need to do.

Love that quote.

This is the core problem.

It is a problem of attention regulation.

That when you want to do something, you overdo it.

You can't stop yourself from doing it.