Robyn Malcolm

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441 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 May

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As I look back now, and I'm sure you will have this as well, you know, I look back now and I go, I instinctively found my people.

You know, I was talking to a friend a while ago who is, we're pretty sure, undiagnosed.

And I went, look at the way we talk.

Like, we go all over the place.

If somebody talks at me for too long about one thing, I start to...

You know, whereas if someone's here and here and here and here and here and here and here, then I'm really, really happy.

I used to think that was just the training that we had when we got toddlers.

You know how when you're a mother of toddlers, you can't talk for too long about anything because the kid's falling off a log or whatever.

You know, but I think ADHD is a quote for me like that.

It's like we can go anywhere.

There's a – oh, what's the name of the book?

It's the best one I've read so far, and it's quite an old book on ADHD.

Driven to Distraction, I think it's called.

Really brilliant.

And the two things that stuck with me was he said often when he is diagnosing somebody, he's looking at –

sort of unfulfilled potential often, you know, people who felt like they could have, underachievement.

And he said, that's not, he said, it's not that I'm working with failures.

He said, often I'm working with people who are hugely successful in wherever they are, but they know that something stopped them somewhere, you know.

But also, I think in the book, there's a few checklists.

And one of them was,

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