Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.

I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.

Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships,

working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. I'll help you understand your unique brain,

unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.

Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I have ADHD podcast. I am

medicated. I am caffeinated. I am regulated and I am ready to roll. Welcome on in. Get cozy.

I wonder what you're doing today. Are you doing the dishes? Are you folding

laundry? Are you out for a run? Are you driving around? Maybe you're on your commute to work.

Maybe you're out for a hike. What are you up to? I'm so glad that you press play, that you are

listening to this, that I get to be your body double for whatever it is

that you are doing. What's up? We're going to talk about friendship today and it's going to be

great. But first, I got to tell you a story about my morning and just how hard it is to like

function as a human with ADHD in the world. I have a neurodivergent kiddo, and he's like

especially neurodivergent, I would say. On the scale of neurodivergency, on the spectrum of

neurodivergency, I would say he's especially neurodivergent. And this kiddo struggles so

much with getting up in the morning. Do you relate to that?

I just feel like it is so unfair that society is set up for neurotypicals. It's so unfair for

neurotypicals who just bounce out of bed and just like go on their way. Like my neurotypical husband

has zero drama about waking up in the morning. The alarm goes off. He gets out of bed. It's no big

deal to him. It's not an imposition to him. I mean, he doesn't love it sometimes, but it doesn't

wear his capacity thin and lead him to burnout. Meanwhile, I have

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