Dr. Micaela

Having trouble making and maintaining eye contact.

Having trouble paying attention to or recalling what people were saying.

Preferring to work when there's no one at the office, like late nights or weekends.

panicking and making mistakes when someone is watching me at work interrupting people and or not knowing when to chime in i can never find the natural lull in a conversation so much more i can't remember right now because of my terrible memory did anyone else go through the same thing i mean don't get me wrong i still think i have some social anxiety the all in the title was hyperbolic

But now I'm now starting to find out how much the ADHD contributes to it.

And holy shit, does it explain a lot.

Just pure catharsis, baby.

If anyone is curious, I'm a 25-year-old male and recently diagnosed.

Okay.

So...

so many things here in this post.

And I wanna start with kind of, well, I guess I'll start with thinking about the brain differences, right?

And because I've already explained how that frontal lobe is the thing that is regulating our emotion center.

And so when our frontal lobe is not as active,

Um, then I am less good at telling my emotions, settle down biscuit.

Um, or like, Hey, we don't need to react to this one.

This is a no big deal.

Um, and so if a person has ADHD, they are going to be by definition, less skilled, um, neurobiologically at regulating their emotions.

That means more reactive emotions, more intense emotions when they happen.

Um,