Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hi everyone, I'm Susan Coff and I'm here to host Attitude magazine's ADHD

experts broadcast. We are super pleased to welcome Peggy Raimundo today

to share lessons and insights from her three decades of working with adults with

ADHD. In the 30 years since her son was diagnosed with ADHD she's become one of the

leaders in the field and a speaker on the condition both for children as well as adults.

Her book, co-authored with Kate Kelly, was one of the first and super essential ADHD books

for adults called, love this title you mean I'm not

lazy stupid or crazy this is a book that's now in its second edition it's something

that any adult with ADHD is going to want to read.

For the past 16 years, Peggy has been working with adults diagnosed with ADHD as a senior

certified ADHD coach.

So today we'll be hearing a number of strategies that she's gleaned from those

three decades of hands-on experience working with adults with ADHD. So with that

introduction let me turn it over to Peggy to get started and thanks again for being here.

Oh absolutely I'm really happy to be here.

I'm glad that you're listening in and I hope that you're trying to help

people.

I want to start out with and the reason why I'm starting out with this is the

picture that you have in front of you of thinking about is what I've called it because this really is sort of the

central my central aha that I've taken over these many years of working at ADE and it's been a it's been a very

interesting ride that started with my son's diagnosis and then mine a year later and what had been my life journey suddenly got turned on its head and became my AIDD journey. And it's been a wonderful ride so far. And what reason I'm starting with this is because one of the things that

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