Dr. Yath Ramesh

The more alcohol you drink, the more likely you are to actually dampen your responses to alcohol so that you don't become as sensitized to it over time.

It's a complete opposite effect with ADHD and RSD.

So the more traumas you experience, so if we imagine that RSD is this bubble that you have, and it's a protective shield, it's a heightened fight or flight response that you have in order to protect you from trauma,

Now, if you imagine that every time you experience a trauma, that bubble gets bigger, and with that bubble, it gives you a stronger response so that you protect yourself next time from trauma.

But as the bubble gets bigger and bigger, the problem is that it becomes easier and easier for things to actually hit the bubble.

So now you get this very heightened response that's also much easier to be able to hit

And that can cause you to want to curl up into a ball and avoid all trauma.

And that's why it can be so painful.

Yeah.

so as a child with adhd you are more likely to go through life being told things that are a different narrative to why you're experiencing life the way that you are so let me just get this um out from the start as well because some of these the listeners of this podcast will have gone through generations of life where

we didn't even have the culture or language to experience, express neurodiversity.

So what does that actually mean?

So what that means is that inattention wasn't even considered a possibility to be something that was wrong with your brain.

These children were probably told that you're not listening, you're not paying attention, there must be something that's

you know, wrong with you because other children are not like this.

You're messy.

You're disorganized.

You misbehave.

Why can't you just be like your sibling or someone else?

So these are ADHD specific traumas that you can have.