Dr. William (Bill) Dodson

Which, of course, they can't do.

Set them up for failure.

A guy named Mikami has published extensively on the power, necessity of having friendships, that you're not going through life alone.

Being alone is traumatic, tremendously traumatic in and of itself.

published a study, again, on third graders with ADHD, and he found that 70% of these children did not have a friend, not a single friend.

That's even more damaging.

When mothers cry in my office, it's not because their kid's flunking math.

They'll fix that.

They cry because their child has never been asked to a birthday party, never been asked to a play date.

And they live a life of being ostracized.

Now, most of my patients, by the time they got to high school, had self-segregated into a group of other ADHD people.

I don't know what they did to themselves.

But that's accurate.

You are alone.

And worse than that,

People have demanded from you that you find a solution for something that has no solution.

They basically say, be neurotypical.

People with ADHD, let me tell you, try all day every day their entire lives and never attain that.

So they go through life with a false front.

I have a belief that what I actually genuinely authentically am