Janelle Booker

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The Imperfects · Janelle Booker & Hamish Blake - The ADHD Playbook for Parents · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

And I could not do them.

Like I could not get through this book.

But I ended up like in the maths questions in the exam situation, I was like usually near the top of the class in that, but I couldn't complete these books.

And mum always used to say like, you're terrible with repeated stuff, but that doesn't mean you're not smart.

Yeah.

Like you're very good at novel new questions and new ideas, but this is an area that you're not great at, but you don't need to worry about it.

which I felt was just such an – I've never forgotten that lesson and that framing from mum because it made me feel like, oh, no, I am smart.

I'm not.

It's not a deficit.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

That's such a good idea because I can imagine it would be so easy for parents or teachers to label those kids as lazy without a strategy like that.

That's such a good point.

Get rid of the word lazy.

Yeah.

It doesn't serve anyone.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's so tragic.

I imagine when you hit puberty and hormones and all these other things start to come into play, that must be an enormous stressor on the system.

I can also imagine that I remember speaking to my psychologist years ago about something that I went through when I was a child and she said, when your kids reach that age, that's going to be really hard for you.

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