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‘Although ADHD is still often thought of as the naughty-kid disease that will eventually go away with maturity, science now shows that one does not outgrow ADHD. Some symptoms can lessen or disappear as a person gets older, but that is not the same as outgrowing them. Not only does adult ADHD exist, but it also has an immense impact on the quality of one’s life experiences’.

If you have ADHD, you need to know that your brain is not broken. It doesn’t work in the same way as a ‘normal’ or neurotypical, brain does because it’s wired differently. Some parts of the ADHD brain are overactive compared to the non-ADHD brain, and some are underactive. Seeing how the ADHD brain works differently from the neurotypical brain helps us understand, accept, and compensate for our differences.

With other people who have ADHD, conversations bounce around many topics in a freestyle stream of consciousness. symptoms of ADHD are often misconstrued and judged as character traits instead of seen as a result of neurological differences.little ADHD errors throughout my day pile up: I double book clients, forget to pay a bill, leave the window open on a rainy day. By evening I am exhausted and feel like a failure.

‘You see, I also have ADHD. But you most likely wouldn’t see it, at first. The symptoms of ADHD are mostly invisible, unless you know where to look’.