Dr. Russell Barkley

And if it's now, I'm all over it.

Yeah.

so I can hyper focus on it.

So she has a diagram of what it's like to have a conversation with her.

And the diagram for the typical person is, I started A and I want to explain this and I get to B. And it's a straight line.

Hers looks like a maze of all over the place, getting distracted, talking about irrelevant things, can't remember what we were describing, have to ask you what we were talking about.

you know and so she's just everywhere and that is so typical of adhd so all of that is to say that people who get diagnosed first of all the diagnosis alone is therapeutic because it takes it takes you out of the realm of moral judgment

and puts it in the realm of neuroscience.

Up until then, you thought you were a bad person.

You were a layabout, ne'er-do-well.

You were lazy, unmotivated.

Your mother was right.

You just failed to launch.

We just can't get you out of here.

And you buy that.

You become so demoralized

about yourself because everybody else is succeeding and here you are stuck in quicksand and you can't seem to get from A to B. And so you start blaming yourself and you literally buy into the societal stigma that there's something wrong with you in terms of your personality and your morality and your self-discipline.

You just have no willpower.

When you get the diagnosis, it's now in the realm of neuroscience and you get it.

You are experiencing a neurodevelopmental disorder or disability.