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Sasha Hamdani

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
794 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And I've been guilty of that, where people have said that, and I'm like, you don't know what it's like.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

You can't possibly know like I do.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

At the end of the day, I have no way of knowing that.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

I have no way of knowing what's going on in their brain.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

What their dysfunction is.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

So I've tried to peel that back and figure out and look at why is this bothering me so much?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

But using self-diagnosis as a tool to get steps to get a formal diagnosis or get more access to knowledge about things and research about things so you can learn about your internal environment.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

I think that there is a huge space for lived experience and talking about that.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And I think the neurodivergent terminology, it was like a psychological term that came out in the 90s.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And it was really this umbrella term to talk about autism and ADHD and all of these other things.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

And the neurotypical was just kind of like a byproduct.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

What's the opposite of this?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

This is a weird area of medicine because it's not this cut and dried mechanism.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

So basically where a majority of that deficit happens is that frontal lobe.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

So directly underneath your forehead, that's where all that executive function judgment processing happens.