Dr. Micaela

That can mean, right?

So everybody doesn't have all of these things, but some people do.

And some people have some features of this.

Some people with ADHD have a really, we call it slow return to baseline because, oh my gosh, my emotions get loud.

And because I don't have the shusher active, it takes me a really long, like bunny hill, right?

Really long time to calm those emotions down.

And for people who have some of that more intense emotion dysregulation because of these biological vulnerabilities, what often can happen in the context of those things is we get, let's say...

I'm sitting in a group of people and talking and somebody kind of like giggles and looks at me.

And my brain interprets that as like, oh my God, they're laughing at you because you sound stupid, right?

So, um, my brain reacts kind of intensely, right?

Maybe in this situation, I'm feeling super anxious.

And so I shut down.

Right.

And then I'm like super quiet.

Maybe even like I blush or sometimes there's like water that leaks out of my eyes when I'm feeling like overwhelmed by emotion.

And so, sorry.

we have this primary like stimulus, which is someone laughed at me.

And then I have a cascading reaction of my emotional response.

But after maybe 30 seconds, one of my friends looks at me and is like, what's wrong with you?

Okay.