John R. Miles

So that's what I did.

Well, speaking of children, when my son was young, he was diagnosed with ADHD and he had what you typically would think of ADHD.

He was extremely hyperactive, like a lot of boys are.

I think in some ways he's grown out of it as he's gotten older.

But in the introduction of the book, you write, most people associate ADHD with hyperactivity, but for many women,

a lot of the hyperactivity is internal and therefore totally invisible.

So I want to follow that quote up with the fact that you've called ADHD a hidden epidemic.

Why are so many women in particular living with ADHD invisibly?

So it was interesting as I was going through your story, you and I, very different stories, very different upbringings, but we had one thing in common.

We both felt essentially invisible.

And you write in the book, no one even knew what was going on with me.

Not my teachers, not my parents, not even me.

In my case, I felt invisible because when I was five years old,

I mean, I've told this story many times on the podcast, but I got pushed from behind playing tag, got thrown through a basement window and had a pretty severe traumatic brain injury.

And everything changed.

I had a speech impediment.

All of a sudden, vision got impacted.

I had cognitive issues.

So I shrunk inside myself because...

i just felt different kids were treating me different and so i became the shell of who i was before until i was able to break out of it can you take us back to those early years when adhd was shaping your life before anyone recognized it that would be so difficult it was i feel like in in my early years