Olivia Attwood

They would diagnose everything else around it and go, oh, she might have anxiety, she might have this.

But no one ever diagnosed me with ADHD until I was 21.

But I remember the first couple of times of actually drinking.

Everything just went really quiet in my mind.

So all those racing thoughts, all those computer tabs that are constantly open just shut down.

And still to this day, that is the effect alcohol gives me.

And that's why people who are neurodivergent have the highest addiction rates of anyone.

And did you feel that as well, that kind of that quiet and like that all the chatter in your mind just kind of went away?

I guess I know the answer to this, but would you ever send your girls to boarding school?

No.

Unless they were a real little... I'm joking.

Yeah, I don't think that's the kind of, I can't, how do I say this about making it sound bad on my mum?

I know, it's hard, isn't it?

Because I know, same as you, my parents said what they thought was the absolute most, you know, and it was, and in so many ways, it was a wonderful experience.

My sister and brother thrived at boarding.

school my sister basically ran that school more than the headmaster did so I think for certain children it can be amazing especially like really sporty kids whatever but I don't think that I can't see myself sending my kids to boarding school do you sometimes I think about obviously I'm going to have a difficult time you know the whole like do as I say not as I do which quite hard when everything we've done is like publicly documented do you ever think how you'll approach those conversations with your girls yeah

Especially with kids, the more teenagers you say, you're not doing that, I think it makes it more attractive.

They want it more.

they have a predisposition to possibly being susceptible to a bad relationship with alcohol.

They don't.