Dr. Micaela

Just accidentally, when you take a stimulant medication, it makes your brain function at a different level so that you are able to do the things more easily.

However, in order to develop the skills that people without ADHD build naturally in their lifetimes, it is like learning a new skill.

And so just like any other new skill, so I'm gonna use the metaphor of a baby learning how to walk,

Because if you've ever seen a baby learn how to walk, those fuckers fall hundreds of thousands of times before they can walk.

And when they do walk, they look like they're like hammered, right?

They're like stumbling all over the place.

And what does the environment do when a baby learns how to walk and is taking their drunk steps, right?

It celebrates, it cheers, it's like you've never seen people more excited than when a baby is taking their first steps, right?

And so thinking about for yourself, hey, you've got the medication on board, great job.

You're improving your function, also amazing.

Now you have to learn new skills.

And so it is not as simple as, oh, I'm going to take this pill and then I'm going to make plans.

And then, oh my God, look, I stuck to my plans.

It's so easy, right?

Um, it really involves, okay, I'm going to take this pill, which makes it easier for me to do some of these things.

So now I have to learn how to make plans and stick to them.

And then breaking things down into just like a baby doesn't wake up in the morning is like, fuck.

Yeah.

Today's the day I'm going to walk.

A baby is like stumbling through and trying and trying and trying and falling and falling and falling.