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let's get started. Welcome Dr. Matt Sikreski back to the Autism, ADHD podcast.

It's great to be back.

Thanks for having me.

I'm super thrilled that you're here.

I'm going to introduce you really quick.

Dr. Matt is a clinical psychologist.

He specializes in working with nerd or virgin people, gifted 2E ADHD autism,

and has presented over 200 times all over the country and internationally.

He is proud to serve the gifted community as a consultant, a professor, an author, and a researcher.

Dr. Matt graduated from Wagner University's Institute of Graduate Clinical Psychology in 2016. He is the co-founder of the Nerd Diversity

Collective. And we're super glad you're here today. I am also super glad to be here today.

Oh, we're all super glad. Right. It's like good, good energy, good vibes today.

Yeah, I love it. So today we're going to talk about a very, very important topic,

perfectionism. And what I have seen over my career and also experienced personally,

we'll dig into that too, is this idea of if I'm perfect then, right? Like if I'm perfect,

then people notice me. Like teachers say, good job on grades, or

maybe other students notice. If I'm perfect, then I'm not bad. If I'm perfect, then, maybe I'll be

loved and accepted. There is so much that goes underneath perfection. And I feel like it's almost encouraged.

Yeah. I mean, we, so this, let's dive right in with the idea of if I'm perfect, I will be loved.

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