Lemonnotta.

And that's kind of at its base, what ADHD is a dopamine and norebinephrine

dysregulation issue.

You have enough of it.

It's just not being utilized in the right spot.

So that's where you get some hyperactivity

and you get some inattention and difficulty regulating energy everything becomes a regulation issue including motions I don't know why I pointed at you

Sorry.

There you go.

Welcome to Potcrushed. We're your hosts I'm Penn. I'm Nava and I'm Sophie and I think we would have been your middle school besties.

Mostly so you could tutor Penn in math. I was only struggling because I was placed ahead too early.

So today's guest will help us think about sort of, you know, a lot about ADHD, but she also gets into stigmas and I was recollecting sort of my own middle school childhood experience and I was trying to think about whether I was stigmatized for anything and I talked about it in our host episode. The biggest one that stands out is food. I brought food that looked really different from what everyone else was eating.

But a funnier one, this was an elementary school. My school was uniforms only, but like a few times a year you could, they had something called casual day where you could pay to not wear your

uniform and this was yeah it was like a fundraising thing that the school would do okay yeah and

this was like a huge deal for everyone at school was like a show. Like it was a very it was very

important to everyone and my mom when I was little would dress me and all my

classmates would come in like jeans and cute t-shirts. We're talking like fourth

grade and my mom would put me in these really frilly flowery dresses with like white tights.

I was so I was so out of place my mom would not yield like to her I was a little lady and this is how I needed to dress and I was stigmatized for that.

I don't want to invalidate that but that's so cute.

Yeah looking back it was cute but at the time I was very...

Is that a stigma?

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