Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host William Kerp and I have ADHD. On this podcast,

I dig into tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. Today I'm

joined by Sky Waterson for our research recap series and today we're going to be discussing a paper

called Creative Thinking in Adolescence with Attention, Hyperactivity Disorder.

In this series, we take a look at a single research paper, dive into what the paper says, how it's conducted, and try to find any practical takeaways for you. This is a new series. I do want to make sure that, hey, if you have thoughts, let me know. you can go over to hacking your ADHD.com slash contact and send me a message

and I will try and figure out how we can make this series the best for everyone listening. And I appreciate all the feedback I've gotten far. If you have anything else to say, I'd love to hear it. New episodes of research recap will be coming out every other Friday. And with that, let's get on with the show. I'm excited about this one. This paper is

an older paper. It's 2006, which is way old than we usually do. But this paper is one of the

first papers that I ever read about benefits of ADHD, about the strengths.

And it came up recently because I was talking with a professor who was also an MD who has ADHD and works in New York University.

And they were talking about the good papers that look at the strengths of ADHD.

I referenced this paper as one of them. I thought it was worth bringing up again when we talk

about the strengths of ADHD. Because it's very interesting that, especially in today's

landscape where you have all these ideas of ADHD superpowers

and all these things. And I don't love that model of thinking about it. It is going to like only 20

years ago did we start seeing papers talking about ADHD as a strength rather than as a deficit model.

And it was, it was interesting. I agree with you. I tend to call them strong strength, strong weaknesses.

We have both.

And this paper is called creative thinking and adolescence with ADHD.

And it really looked at three groups of people, which I thought was really interesting.

Coming back to it now, it looked at people who had ADHD, people who had conduct disorder,

and people who were, quote, unquote, normal controls, essentially.

It is a bit of a smaller size than we typically like, but with three groups, I understand,

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