Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. This is episode 494. I'm your host Thomas Smith,

and it's part two with Dr. Janessa Seymour on ADHD and autism and these mental health outcomes. Can't wait to get to more of this conversation. So much fascinating stuff. I learned a ton. Go back and listen to part one if you haven't, of course. But Dr. Janessa Seymour today is going to take us through even more of this really good study and hopefully the beginning of better understanding of folks with autism and

ADHD. So I think that's all there is to say here. Why don't we take our usual break,

which you can avoid if you go to patreon.com slash serious pod, support the show. And after that,

we'll be on with Janessa. This is one of many things that has always told me that I'm the ADHD and not the autism, because I don't have that at all in any way shape or form.

Oh, boy.

This is me all day every day.

I have the opposite where I can't, I go the

opposite where everything everyone says I'm ADHDing five steps ahead of what they're actually trying to get at. And like sometimes I'm like, I'll answer stuff that's like, sometimes I can go too far the other way. Oh, yeah. Where I'm like, oh, they want to know this and they want to know, okay, and so I said this. And it's like, no, actually they did want to know the relationship to the person that you're picking.

You know, like I sometimes go too far the other way.

And I said this. And it's like, no, actually, they did want to know the relationship to the person that you were picking. You know, like, I sometimes go too far the other way, and I don't know what the difference is there. But I do, this is really interesting because another thing that that'll maybe be like a little more tangible from that whole bullshit that happened was whenever someone would accuse me of having like alternate Reddit accounts or

something like, oh my God.

Oh, that's Thomas's all.

And I was just like, and Lydia and I laugh about this a lot because there's nothing that's less me.

There's nothing that's further in the universe from me than making another fucking account

and pretending I'm not that.

And it's just like so infuriating.

I don't know if this is common though.

I'm trying to think of what the common ADHD thing would be other than maybe if this is

anything or if this is just hyper specific to me and I just cannot figure out what, like

I am, I am hyper-focused.

I want to know what these ADHD kids are what's happening happening to them. Like, I really am curious about this. Yeah. For me, it feels like it's this idea of, I am pretty straightforward by necessity. Like, it's just how I am. Like, I'm going to say kind of what I, because I just can't fucking remember anything. I'm not going to remember the lie that I told someone that's not going to work. You know, like, I'm just, don't you know who I am? Like, I'm just this all the time. And I do wonder, maybe that is part. I don't know. I could see that being part of it where it's like, oh, you think I'm like doing, it really resonated with me when you said, like, oh, you think I'm saying something to try to accomplish something or whatever, to try to, like, trick someone or to try to like make someone feel bad. It's like, no, I just answered the question. I don't know. Like, I just, you know, I just said it was I thought it was true. It's interesting. Maybe that is that. That happens to me a lot.

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