Dr. Micaela (Dr. Michaela)

It's like, of course, we need all of them for all of the situations.

things.

Or sometimes we just don't understand things or the expectation of the effort that we have to put into dishes.

Nobody needs to decide what to do on dishes, but the expectation of how long it's going to take me to do dishes is so overwhelming that I just am not even going to

Yeah.

So part of our like frontal lobe, that executive functioning part of our brain is being able to discriminate, like what is the most important thing at any given point in time.

So in this exact moment, every person who's experiencing us is

um, their brain is taking in like a wide array of information, right?

So we're wearing clothes, there are lights, there are maybe things moving or like colors and, and like physical things in our environments, right?

So neurotypical brain can say, Oh, I'm watching a video that I'm interested in, hopefully.

And I'm going to focus on that video.

Um,

And maybe a couple things about the video or whatever, right?

An ADHD brain is taking in the seams of my clothing, the sound the light is making.

And instead of saying, oh, I know I want to watch this video, it's like, in some ways it's ping-ponging, but really it's being assaulted by all of that information because I'm not like...

that filter isn't present to be able to say, here's the one or two things that I want to be kind of focused on in this moment.

And so that's just, then it manifests, right?

Right.

So when we're thinking about like, oh,

Shoes.