Understanding the ADHD Subtypes (Rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to understanding our ADHD it can be a bit of a minefield to navigate - one of our most pernicious problems is that often we're never really educated in what it means to have ADHD. And to top that off, what we learn from pop-culture just reinforces stereotypes that don't really reflect what ADHD is actually about.

One of the most important ways to help manage our ADHD is to accept it, but that can be really hard to do if we don't actually have a good grasp of what having ADHD means. So in today's episode, we're going to be diving into the ADHD subtypes (or presentations as it's now being called) → there are the 3 kinds of ADHD that you might be diagnosed with, hyperactive-impulsive, inattentive, and combined.

Today we're going to be exploring these presentations of ADHD and working on understanding how this can help define our own ADHD.

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This Episode’s Top Tips

ADHD is a spectrum disorder, which means that it includes a wide list of conditions and severity which means that your ADHD is just that, yours. No one is going to have the exact same symptoms that you do, so don't worry about comparing yourself to others even if you do resonate with a lot of the stories you hear in the community.
The three presentations of ADHD are Hyperactive-Impulsive, Inattentive, and Combined. We can roughly estimate that about 10% of diagnoses are hyperactive-impulsive, 30% are inattentive, and 60% are combined.
I know this was basically in the first tip, but it bears repeating - we're all going to be ADHDing in our own way - make sure you're not going to struggle with all the same things that everyone else does so focus on what's going to make the biggest difference for you.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD.
0:05.4	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:09.0	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:16.1	When it comes to understanding our ADHD, it can be a bit of a minefield to navigate.
0:22.3	One of our most pernicious problems is that we're almost never really educated about what it means to have ADHD,
0:27.9	and what we do learn mostly comes from pop culture and doesn't really reflect what ADHD is
0:33.7	actually about. We can help manage our ADHD by learning to accept it,
0:39.4	but that can be really hard to do if we don't have a good grasp of what having ADHD means.
0:44.9	So in today's episode, we're going to be diving into the three ADHD subtypes,
0:49.6	or presentations as they're now being called,
0:52.3	and then looking at how this can help us understand our own ADHD. If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find
0:59.3	that at hacking your ADHD.com slash subtypes. All right, keep on listening to find out what
1:06.9	kind of space cadet you are.
1:18.1	Hey, before we really get started, I just want to emphasize that I am not a doctor and that nothing I say in this episode should be considered a diagnosis.
1:22.3	If after I go through the subtypes, you feel like you really resonate with one, but haven't
1:26.4	been diagnosed yet?
1:32.6	My suggestion would be to schedule yourself to go see a real doctor. This episode can be a good first step in exploring ADHD, but it definitely shouldn't be your last one. All right, now on with the
1:38.1	show. ADHD is a spectrum disorder, which means that it includes a wide list of conditions and severity,
1:45.3	which can help define your ADHD.
1:47.8	This also means that you're definitely not going to have all the symptoms of ADHD.
1:52.4	This wide list of symptoms can also lead people to the conclusion,
1:56.1	well, hey, everyone's a little ADHD, right?
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