Sasha Hamdani

understood ADHD, learn how to make accommodations for yourself.

It's kind of like you're going through this environment that you never really figured out with schooling.

You never really grabbed hold of it.

And then now you're an adult and you have to figure out what to do with it, but you don't have any of those foundational skill sets.

A neurodevelopmental condition.

So I kind of have a hot take on that.

And my hot take is that I think self-diagnosis is actually good to a point.

And the reason for that, and I'll tell you what the point is too.

I think that it is incredibly valid to have someone learn about what is happening in their brain, find things out on social media or in books or in literature or research that looks like them and grab hold of that and start learning verbiage of how to describe their own internal environment.

I think that's a wonderful thing.

And I think that that can be a wonderful stepping stone to accessing care.

And I know that's not an accessible step for a lot of people, but that next step,

I have problems with it when it moves from self-diagnosis to the medication standpoint.

That's really where I start to draw the line because when you start trying to treat yourself, you haven't done the exclusionary kind of thing to figure out what else is going on.

And medications of any type, they're not without risk.

You're doing things that could potentially impact other things in big ways.

So if you think you have ADHD and you want to learn behavioral strategies that help an ADHD brain, go for it, man.

I think you're right.

If you're using ADHD as an excuse, and if you're saying, I can't do this, and you don't have a formal diagnosis, for someone who does have ADHD, that can be extremely irritating.

Yeah.