240 | Dear ADHD - Special Episode

ADHD reWired

Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Do you say that you "are ADHD" or say that you "have ADHD?" Through people-first language, we show that people are more than their diagnosis. However, over time, I've come to appreciate how nuanced language is, and how important it is to let people express their identity. Living with ADHD is a story. As we change, so does our relationship with ADHD. One way I've helped people capture their relationship with ADHD is an exercise I've been doing with my coaching groups. I call this exercise, "Dear ADHD." I encourage members to write letters to their ADHD. Since this is ADHD Awareness Month, I invited members of our alumni membership community to write another letter to their ADHD. What you will hear on this episode is some of those members reading their "Dear ADHD" letters. Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles: http://www.audibletrial.com/ADHDreWired ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group If you'd like to secure an early spot and an early registration price for our winter session of the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group, RSVP for our registration event on October 25th at 3 pm Central. This session starts January 7th. To learn more or RSVP for the group registration, go to http://CoachingreWired.com. Support the podcast on Patreon Patreon allows listeners like you to support content creators like me. With a monthly contribution, you can get access to different levels of perks. One perk example is our Patreon-only Adult Study Hall. Learn more at http://patreon.com/adhdrewired ADHD reWired Facebook Group: If you would like to join the ADHD reWired secret Facebook group, go to EricTivers.com/community and fill out an application. Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live! These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30 pm. Go to http://erictivers.com/events. Want to be a guest? Hey, What about you? Do you have a story? Are you a Coach? Are you an ADHD Clinician? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions and you'd like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call here.

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0:22.0	Do you are ADHD or like me say that you have ADHD? In my training as a social worker we are taught to use person first language as in a person with ADHD or a person with autism or a person with whatever it is. The idea is that people are more than their diagnosis.
0:28.0	However, over time, I've come to appreciate how nuanced language is and how important it is to give people the power and
0:36.6	freedom to choose how they express their identity as a person with or as a person who is a
0:43.4	a d hd or even as a person with a d
0:47.4	and if you're thinking but a d is no longer an official diagnosis
0:52.0	it's a and intensive presentation.
0:55.0	Yes, you're right.
0:56.5	But lately I've been starting to wonder about our motivation
1:00.4	when we choose to educate people who use AIDD. Are we just being diagnostic grammar police or is it something more? Is it that we're advocating for accurate information around a disorder that continues to be marred by inaccurate information and out-of-date thinking.
1:18.0	Maybe you prefer AED because it's just easier to say, and maybe you prefer ADHD because because you like
1:25.0	feel that you like science and you feel that using the H
1:29.7	represents that.
1:31.1	I bring this up that is a commentary or a debate about how we should talk about it, but that sharing
1:38.1	our stories of living with ADHD is a story of relationship.
1:45.1	As we grow, as we age, as we learn,
1:49.0	as we take on new challenges, as our meds change, as our hormones change, so too as our ADHD.
1:57.0	More specifically, the relationship we have with our ADHD changes.
2:02.0	Sometimes, it changes day to day, or week to week.
2:06.7	And sometimes the relationship changes more gradually
2:09.3	over time.
2:10.4	One of the ways that I have been able to capture and help other people capture, this growing relationship
2:16.2	with their ADHD is an exercise that I've been doing for a while with my coaching groups. It's an exercise I call Dear ADHD. This is where I give
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