Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter and you are listening to a bite-size episode of the I Have ADHD podcast. I am medicated, caffeinated, regulated, and ready to roll. This little episode is one of my favorite clips from the podcast. It's perfect if you're not in the mood for a full hour-long listen.

Because let's be real, some of us ADHD just don't have the patience for all of that.

But if you are a die-hard listener, think of this as your mid-week pick me up.

It's Thursday, y'all.

Friday is right around the corner.

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episode. And remember, my friend, drink your water, take your meds, grab a snack. Now let's get

rolling. Hi, my name is Brooklyn and I am from Grants Pass, Oregon. And I'm new to the podcast.

My friend had been posting about ADHD and I was like an amazement about how many of the symptoms,

pretty much all of them that I had.

And so I'm currently trying to be diagnosed, but I'm fairly sure I have it.

Anyway, the podcast has been super helpful for me. Almost every episode has kind of like brought me to tears because I resonate

with everything and it's really helping me to cope and understand that, you know, this is real and I'm not crazy.

But something that I'm struggling with is now I've been opening up about it with, like, my

family, like my dad or my mother-in-law or whoever, and a common response that I get is that everybody has ADHD.

Like it's not a big deal.

Like everyone deals with it or people are just not diagnosed.

And I just feel like people just treat ADHD like it's not a big deal.

Like it's just if you have it it you just can't focus on stuff

but that's just normal but um I just don't know how to respond to that you know people watering it

down and treating it like you know it's a normal thing um so I just wanted some advice on how to respond to that comment that, oh, everyone has ADHD.

Oh, you're just easily distracted.

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