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 are listening to the I Have ADHD podcast. I am

medicated, caffeinated, regulated-ish and ready to roll. So glad to be here with you today.

Coming at you from Mannyunk, Pennsylvania, happy, happy, happy to be in studio recording. And I got to tell you, I am hung

over. I am hung over in the most serious way today. And it's not exactly what you expect,

because yes, I am still sober-ish, mostly very much sober. I haven't had a drip of alcohol

in quite a long time, but I feel so hung over.

I just got back from a six-day trip to Texas where I took my middle guy, Charlie, to a water polo

tournament. Apparently, I am the mom now who spends money and time and energy at water polo tournaments far,

far away, in a land far far away called Texas. And yes, I did go to a rodeo. And yes, it was so

much fun. We had a great time. But here's what happens when I travel. I don't know about you,

but when I am out of my element, I'm not sleeping in my bed. I don't have my food. I don't have

anything that, like, is mine. My routine is not mine. My time is not mine when you're on somebody

else's schedule. My bed is not mine. My food.

Like nothing is mine. Like I, it depletes me so much. And we landed in the Philly airport at 11 p.m.

on Sunday, got home at 2 a.m. because we had to wait for our whatever. It's annoying. I don't even

want to say it. It took forever. It took forever. Usually it's just like an hour.

Boop. No problem. But it took forever to get home. And then here's what happened. I got home at 2. 2 a.m.

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