Dr. Russell Barkley

That's how angry he got.

Road rage is characteristic of 40 to 55% of adults with ADHD.

All it takes is another driver to cut you off aggressively and you engage.

And so the emotionality of ADHD permeates almost everything.

It explains why there is a lot more intimate partner aggressiveness and frustration in intimate partner relationships because they can be some of the most challenging and frustrating and emotional situations that we have.

So it goes beyond just rejection by another to incorporate any emotionally provocative situation, including relationships, but beyond relationships.

So we can account for this rejection sensitivity without adding in and inventing whole cloth, a new disorder for which there is very little evidence.

Worst thing about my job right now is I'm 72 and I see the end of my career ahead of me.

And, you know, it's been a great ride.

I just can't tell you how rewarding it has been to work in this field.

It's why I wrote the four books during the pandemic.

The one for parents, the 12 principles book, I basically sat down and said, if you could reduce

over a half million research studies papers conferences to crucial ideas that we've learned that everybody needs to know it would be those 12 and the the adult taking charge has the same information I just didn't phrase it that way so you know the bad thing for me is I I can see this coming and I'm stepping back and I'm moving into semi-retirement and enjoying my grandchildren but I'm gonna miss the ride it's it's been extremely rewarding to be

this helpful to so many people through the act of scientific discovery, and more importantly, as Carl Sagan and others have shown, is to disseminate it.

Leave the lab.

I keep teaching this to students and young faculty.

You do nothing when you publish a paper.

You do a great deal for humanity when you go out and meet with

the people who have this problem, and share the science, disseminate it.

And you change lives that way.