ADHD Rewired Bonus episode. It is the end of October 2014 which means it is

ADHD Awareness Month. So today's episode is a bonus edition, an extra one. A thank you

for being awesome and for listening. Today's episode is an ADHD 101 episode and this is all I'm going to say to set it up.

Enjoy.

Welcome everybody to another episode of ADHD

rewired. This is a special episode because it is ADHD Awareness Month

and this is the first solo It is 80-HD Awareness Month.

And this is the first solo episode that I have done in quite some time.

Now it's kind of funny.

I was recently asked, someone to message me on Facebook and asked me if I had an ADHD

101 episode that can help somebody else understand a little more about ADHD and I thought about it and said no no I don't have an ADHD

one on one episode because I sprinkle all things about ADHD throughout all the episodes.

So we don't always start in logical order, but I'm going to do it today with an ADHD 101.

What really is ADHD? So here is, I think, a, I want to start off with an analogy here. So remember in

school when we learned that there were three branches of governments you know the

executive legislative and judicial branches.

And then we were told how laws got passed and then later we learned that while this is true

on the surface, in reality it's much more complex than that because before legislation

ever goes through a three-wrenches of government it gets whiplash and modified

and influenced through committees and

lobbyists and political action committees,

corporate donors and media and spinsters

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