171 Should You Tell People About Your ADHD?

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

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

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It can be hard to decide whether or not you should share your ADHD diagnosis with the people in your life. Is it their business to know? Will it help or hurt the relationship? This is one of the questions that we get asked most often, and so I wanted to share some tips to making the decision!

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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.
0:35.0	Hey what's up? This is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I have
0:41.2	ADHD podcast episode number 171. I am not medicated yet. Y'all I'm only
0:49.8	half caffeinated but I am 100% ready to roll. So let's go. How are you? Happy
0:59.1	summer. It's really good to be here with you. I'm kind of giggling this morning. It's early. I didn't get my work done yesterday.
1:08.0	Is that relatable to anyone, anyone at all? I send my podcast editors my raw recordings on Thursdays. It's the
1:16.5	deadline. It's what we've done for a year and a half now. Here's the problem
1:21.6	yesterday. I didn't get it done and today I've got a lot of stuff
1:25.6	going on my kids need rides to all the places because you know it's summertime and
1:30.0	I'm a mom and so here I am it's 8 a.m. totally fine it's not super early but I am I'm still
1:37.8	waking up I don't really like to eat until like 10 so which means I don't take my meds until 10 so anyway we're doing this
1:45.4	unmedicated we're only half caffeinated and we're doing it because we didn't get
1:49.8	everything done yesterday and sometimes that just happens. I wonder how much drama you
1:54.6	have when that happens to you when you miss a deadline. I'm curious. It used to
2:02.2	send me into a spiral where I would totally beat myself up and be like, oh, I can't believe you did this again. You're never going to learn.
2:08.0	blah, blah, blah, blah. And now my brain, I've really overcome that spiral and I can just be like yeah I missed a
2:16.5	deadline it happens I'm a human not only am I human but I'm a human with the
2:21.4	HD so it's no problem. Yeah so 8 12 a.m. It is a
2:27.2	foggy Pennsylvania morning. It's not looking great out there but that's okay. It's still warm. It's not freezing, so I'm okay with it.
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