155 What Is ADHD And How Do I Explain It?

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Are you stumped when someone asks you to define ADHD? Do you either give them a super basic answer OR totally over-share? On today's episode, I intend to solve that problem! We discuss what is ADHD exactly, and how to explain it to someone without getting too lost in the weeds.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and
0:11.1	coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD.
0:17.0	Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
0:27.0	I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.
0:34.0	Hey what's up?
0:39.0	This is Kristen Carter and you are listening to the I have it HD podcast episode number
0:44.8	156. I am medicated I am caffeinated and I am ready to roll. Welcome
0:52.0	welcome to the podcast today. Thank you so much for listening, for pressing
0:57.1	play on this episode. I don't take it lightly. I don't take it lightly. I know you've only got so much time, so much
1:05.4	attention and I'm grateful to you for listening and I think you're going to love
1:10.4	this episode. We're getting back to the basics. We are going away back to the
1:16.2	basics and here's why. Have you ever told someone that you have ADHD or
1:21.8	somebody's told them like somebody finds out you have ADHD and then they say something like oh okay
1:27.2	What is that and then you literally have no words to say next like you have no idea what to say. Yeah that happened to me recently and I
1:38.0	really wanted to think it through and give you a framework for what to say when somebody kind of wants an
1:47.2	explanation of what ADHD is. So we're talking about it. What is it exactly? How do we explain it to people without like kind of losing track and getting lost in the
1:58.8	weeds and not really communicating you know exactly what we want to so most people think of ADHD as being a
2:06.8	deficit of attention so when you were diagnosed by your doctor, practitioner, or clinician, I'm wondering what they told
2:16.5	you about ADHD. So they kind of break the news to you like, yep, this is ADHD. I'm curious what they told you about it. If you're like me and you were
2:27.4	diagnosed and treated for ADHD years before you even researched it or read a book on it, it likely that you you know observed yourself struggling to pay
2:36.5	attention for long periods of time and maybe struggled to follow through on your plan but
2:42.0	probably didn't understand the full scope of what it means
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