Dr. Micaela

And once they understood that at the core of those things was actually ADHD, then they could focus on that, which actually makes the rest of the spider web kind of melt away and then freeze us up to rebuild the spider web in the way and the configuration that we wanted it to be.

So to give you like an illustration of what that might look like.

you don't just get diagnosed with ADHD and you're like, Oh my God, I'm so normal now.

Right?

Like now that I understand that I'm neurodivergent, like I can totally just, um, like fit in and not interrupt people.

Um, just like you can't always say like, Oh, Hey, sorry.

I interrupted you 10 times today.

Um, I have ADHD.

Um, and you can, um, um,

What it allows you to do and what is like the secret key to so many things in life and is very, very hard is that you start to recognize, you know what?

These are my weaknesses.

Yeah.

And now that I kind of have a better understanding of myself, I suck at like large group conversations because I either sit there mute because I can't figure out when to talk or I'm constantly interrupting and I feel like I'm monopolizing the conversation.

And so...

Once you actually start to embrace those weaknesses, you can do something different about it.

Like, I'm just not going to hang out with people who are aggressively offended by me interrupting people.

I'm going to do my best in situations that I can't avoid it.

But beyond that, I'm going to choose to not surround myself by those people.

Hold on one second, because this...

Okay, hopefully I don't have to do that again because I'm imagining that sounds terrible on audio.