Dr. William (Bill) Dodson

It was other people who got it.

who really understood, who really understood what you were going through and accepted you just as you are.

You're not broken.

You're not devastated.

You're a hardworking person doing the best they can.

Oh, yeah.

Again, I have to go back and lay a little historical groundwork.

When you're doing research that you hope has a chance of being published, because your job depends on it being published, you can only use things which you can see, count, which are always there, and then you can do statistical analysis on it so you can get your paper published.

ADHD has none of those things.

after the hyperactivity dims in early adolescence and goes inside as hyperarousal, it's almost entirely an internal experience that indeed people can and do mask.

It also isn't consistent.

Now, just about everybody with ADHD, when the situation is just right, can flip and become totally engaged with what they're doing, hyperfocus, flow state, whatever you want to call it.

And when they do, they don't have any problems.

They have no deficits.

So again, ADHD is not a damaged brain.

It's just what matters is the situation that the person's in.

That's what determines whether or not they're off on the land or in a hyperfocus.

So again, it's not that people with ADHD have bad brains.

It's that they have a different brain, a second nervous system.

Works perfectly well.