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Have you ever wondered what it was really like to live with ADHD?
Do you have ADHD and wish you could help other people see what it’s like? In this episode, we set out to do exactly that: to give people who don’t have ADHD themselves a little better understanding of what it’s really like.
Kick Some ADHD podcast co-host and ADHD Success Coach Dana Rayburn pulls back the curtain and gives us a sneak peek into her unique brain. Rather than talking about ADHD symptoms, Dana talks about what the experience of ADHD is like for those of us who have it.
Huge Caveat
As Dana says, “If you’ve met one person with ADHD, you’ve met one person with ADHD.”
Although the underlying brain chemistry that is responsible for ADHD has great similarities from one person who has ADHD to another, there are certainly variations. More importantly, each person’s life experiences uniquely shape how they react on a physiological, mental, and emotional level to their neurology.
So please keep in mind as you listen to this that each person who has ADHD is truly unique and our experiences and perspective can vary widely.
Hopefully what you hear in this episode can help lead to meaningful conversations and greater shared understanding about neurodiversity and the many wonderful things that ADHD brings to our lives and the world!
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Hi Dana and David. I live in Sydney Australia. Thanks so much for the info on this episode. I could so relate to the experiences you both shared of a day in the life of an ADHD brain. It was both refreshing and reassuring to hear your experiences and feeling like I’m not the only one who struggles to navigate the living with Adult ADHD. I have 2 boys with ADHD and was diagnosed at 49 years of age and prescribed Ritalin 10. I really battle with motivational consistency to get going and get things done. I could really relate to the now and not now experiences you shared where our non-neurotypical brains aren’t always ready to do stuff when we know we should do it, others tell us we should do it or when it’s getting to the point where it just has to be done. I have tried to put some structure in place to do things at a certain time or in a certain way with work or at home but it just goes out the window so quickly and I just can’t stick to it. I have found this to be very frustrating as I do like to have some structure, but being flexible around it to accomodate times where my brain just doesn’t want to do things that way or do it at all can really get me down.