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.

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You are listening to the I have ADHD,

podcast episode number 35 I am your host Kristen Carter I am medicated I am

caffeinated and I am so ready to roll that I'm not even going to make small talk with you.

I am going to jump right in.

I seriously have such a fire in my belly about the topic that we are going to discuss today.

I cannot wait to talk to you about it because it's huge.

This realization that I had is so huge.

So listen up, it's going to be life changing.

You're ready?

Here we go.

Okay, I used to think that I needed to be motivated in order to do the things that I wanted to do.

Now as an adult with ADHD, that motivation only showed up once in a while. I didn't know when it would come. I didn't know how long it would stay. I would wait patiently for its arrival. Take advantage of it while it was around, and then when

it was gone, I would just kind of sit around and wonder when it would return.

Do you relate to that? Does that sound like you? Every once in a while you have this

wave of motivation come over you and you're like, okay, let's get it done. And you are just the most, what's the word, productive person on the planet

and you can get more done in two hours than like a neurotypical human could get done in two weeks. you're like oh my gosh I'm amazing and then that feeling of motivation leaves and you're like oh okay I guess it's gone and then you're not motivated again for another day or week or a month or whatever, right?

So frustrating. So scientists initially believe that people with ADHD have lower dopamine levels in their brains.

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