Ruby Hall

And now I feel like it's a lot easier for me to write and finish things.

Yeah.

And I think it just sort of has a bit of a cycle because when you are feeling sad or you're feeling tired or all of these things that make all stressed, it really does exacerbate these ADHD symptoms.

And then it just sort of has this compounding effect because you go, why can't I just send this email?

I'm so stupid.

What's wrong with me?

And you have all these like negative self-talk that then compounds all of those feelings of stress and anxiety and sadness.

And so it didn't feel like there was a way to kind of like –

fix that and there is definitely people who can like like medication can help there's all sorts of other things that can help as well and I think just like the diagnosis in itself helped me to kind of like forgive and like look at myself in a way that's not so critical I think of just being like

my brain's different.

Yeah.

I think that's okay.

And these are the things that I'm really good at.

And these are the things that I'm not good at.

And I'm going to try and, you know, improve myself and try and get better at the things I'm not good at, but also not punish myself if it doesn't like, if I'm not, if it doesn't come as naturally to me as it does to other people.

Yes, it's such a strange thing because I think a lot of people have the perspective of what ADHD looks like because kind of the only people that would be medicated.

So you'd only know about the kid that has ADHD because he physically couldn't like sit down in a class.

And I say he because often, yeah, I didn't know any girls in my school.

And it's like what are the chances that no girls at my entire school had ADHD?

It's pretty unlikely.