What is the emotional toll perhaps of someone who has all DHD but never figures it out?

This reminds me of something that happened recently.

Somebody, a mother, contacted me from Canada.

She emailed me.

And she said that she has read my book. She had seen our previous podcast.

And for a very long time, she was in grief because her son died a year ago.

His name was Adam.

He was a musician.

He was at the age of 13 years, he was elected as one of the BBC musicians of the year.

Gifted, he saw music on the piano.

He learned, he mastered the music in two months after he learned the basics of it.

To the extent that people said that he is unteachable now, people could not train him because he was at that very level.

He had died a year ago of overdose, fentanyl overdose.

And the mother could not forgive him or forgive herself, had not looked at the picture for a year.

And when she sent me the story and sent me the email, I cried for five minutes, just

listening and just listening to the voice

note and looking at the story that she had sent, the pictures of the person.

From the very onset, like again, he was brilliant, but he used to forget things.

He ended up one day with just one shoe in school.

He was not a typical ADHD.

And when mother raised concerns with a school teacher, with a school nurse,

and she laughingly said, oh, somebody who can

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