Dr. Asad Rafi

I say, yeah, I've got all of those.

I say, well, that's Alzheimer's dementia.

And I think we've got to be really careful about

because we can align ourselves to these particular explanations or conditions.

And there can then be a bias, but certainly demand avoidance or an avoidant behavior I see within the emotional challenges that people with ADHD present with, what we would badge under that umbrella of rejection sensitivity.

This is the element that I call the penny drop moment.

This is the part of the assessment where people realize exactly what's been happening over the last few years, how it relates to the ADHD, and certainly having ADHD, the impact of not meeting your own expectations, not meeting the expectations of others,

starts to take its toll.

You're not achieving your true potential.

Life is stressful.

It becomes unsustainable.

And what people will often say is, I feel different.

I don't feel good enough.

They're not able to, in some respects, qualify it further from there.

And as we start to frame exactly what RSD looks like, because again, this is a term that's synonymous now with

the neurodivergent community.

You ask most doctors, most clinicians, most people within the healthcare field, they don't even know what it is.

And what we will then find is, yes, those are the features that will dominate.

To a degree.

The framework is exactly the same.