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Rosemary Writes & Recovers 🌹's avatar

Just listened as I walked outside during my lunch hour. Bravo , ladies!

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I just was nodding my head and mmm humming along as though I were sitting and chatting with you both over tea.

So much resonated for me.

The hyperactive brain but not necessarily hyper active body.

The hyper focus, being an excellent student. The perfectionism. Trouble with executive function, and gosh, I’ll add in my feelings of shutdown and overwhelm.

My younger daughter, now 24, has been telling me since she was a teen that she is adhd -that I knew because she presented classically. And like your son, Allison, I’d read to her or teach her a math lesson and she’d be running laps around my dining room table so I would get annoyed thinking she wasn’t paying attention but anytime I’d stop and say, “Lauren, what did I just say?!” She’d spout back verbatim what I’d been saying.

So. I called her my puppy dog child and got her a mini trampoline for the house lol and out her in a soccer league.

But. Back to my point. Ha. Hello, ADHD.

She told me years ago I was adhd and I argued, “no. I can focus. I like to read. I like to sit. “ but then she’d say “yeah, but how many tabs do you have open on your computer, Mom? “

Sigh. God bless hyper focus cuz it’s how I write!

Thank you for the lunch time food for thought. Great job to both of you. Very professionally done!

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Tawny Lara's avatar

Such an important intersection!

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