Dr. Kieran Kennedy

But yeah, I think in a lot of ways, my brain is quite neurotypical.

And sometimes I think, you know, I would like a little bit of spice.

I would like a bit of neurodivergence sometimes.

Absolutely.

Yeah, definitely.

I mean, I think as we'll go into ADHD and neurodivergence, autism as well, I often talk to patients about it being a bit of a double-edged sword sometimes.

There are a lot of things about ADHD that can make the world we have to live in now very difficult, but there are a lot of things about ADHD as well that...

can absolutely be a bit of a superpower to use that kind of bit of a corny phrase, but you know, it can absolutely drive a lot of, you know, real passion and interest, creativity, hyper-focus, you know, and, and I know doctors and people I went to med school with even who have ADHD diagnosis.

So it's, it's definitely not a block to anything.

So, yeah.

Yeah, well, that's great.

Yeah, absolutely.

It is the same thing.

It's kind of, we used to talk about it more separately as being hyperactivity or attentional issues.

And so ADD was kind of the old terminology, but I guess attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, as we know it now, it's a combination of what we call inattentive symptoms.

So that can look like

struggling to focus, being really distractible to things around us.

It can be issues with memory, time management, organization.

And then there's that more stereotypical, classical hyperactivity side to ADHD.

And that's what we used to sort of think about with ADHD was sort of