Dr. Kieran Kennedy

Oh, God.

Come on.

And test the brakes, you know, make sure you're not slamming it into the concrete.

But, no, it was great.

I love coming back, and New Zealand will obviously always be my home, and it's such a special place.

So coming back to see my family, but also just to be around, you know, some Kiwis and hear some New Zealand accents, it's nice as well.

There's a lot of Kiwi accents around there.

It can affect all of those things in really complex, multiple ways, really.

Often positive.

I mean, I think in terms of relationships and work, people with ADHD, oh God, I mean, there's any number of positives, but they can be incredibly creative and active, motivated, multi-talented, jumping into different things.

But that can be a bit of a double-edged sword sometimes as well.

People can struggle to maybe, for example, remember something their partner has told them.

Often people tell me that whole...

We talked about this on Monday or I told you this was coming up on Saturday.

And that can actually cause a lot of friction in relationships.

You know, so something like that might impact a relationship negatively.

Something else that people might have heard about as well is what we call RSD or rejection sensitive dysphoria.

It's a bit of a mouthful, but that is very common with ADHD.

And what that is, is actually being incredibly sensitive and hypervigilant to any rejection from others.

And so people with ADHD often feel like they might monitor or scan their partner or their friends or their family for any tiny little hint of rejection or abandonment or you're not happy with me, I'm not pleasing you.