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Sasha Hamdani

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
794 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

I don't want to be around him because I'm looking for as he's reading it, what his face is doing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And so then what he'll do is he'll respond to it and he'll make pizza rolls.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And then we'll have like a fun snack and we'll talk about it and then we'll be done.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And it's the best system we've ever had.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

Time and giving yourself that space to regulate before you come into and like try to resolve a situation.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

Because otherwise, this is so messed up.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

I think I'm realizing now that if I come off of an argument and I want to address it right away, I want to show him how hurt I feel and how badly that hurt.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And it's not about resolving it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

It's about wallowing in it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And then I get angrier and madder.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

So it's not a clinical term.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

You see it a lot in autism as well, but it has to do with like rigidity, being very rigid and having a set expectation in your brain and then having it not come to fruition in the way that you planned.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

I think that's kind of where it stems from.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And so they're looking at like a huge gamut of presentations of ADHD.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

So there's some people who,

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

who in order to maintain their ADHD, they have become very rigid about things.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

They have built these structures for themselves where it's like, this is how it has to be because this is how I can function.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

Yeah, we're all trying to get by.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

There are some brains that are just more sensitive to these things than others.