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Transcript: ADHD can disrupt adult life: Here’s how to own it | The Nation's Health
In addition to producing award-winning news stories, The Nation’s Health lets you hear directly from the people we’re talking to. In this episode, I’ll chat with Russell Barkley. He is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and a leading author and researcher on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
We will discuss ADHD in adults — what ADHD looks like beyond childhood and implications for public health.
But, before the call, here’s a primer on ADHD.
ADHD is a common neurodevelopmental disorder. It shows up in early childhood — and it can exhibit itself in a wide range of ways, but there are three main presentations of ADHD — inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive and combined presentation.
The list of symptoms of ADHD is long. But, to provide some examples — inattentive types may have difficulty sustaining attention or make frequent careless mistakes. Those with hyperactive-impulsive presentation can feel as if they are driven by a motor; they may fidget or have difficulty waiting for their turn in social or classroom settings. It’s also common that someone with ADHD will experience a blend of being hyperactive and being unable to focus.
It’s important to note that everyone will experience some of the symptoms of ADHD at some point or another. When we’re talking about an ADHD diagnosis, a person has to have a number of symptoms that have persisted over time. And it rarely develops beyond adolescence. However, just because a person wasn’t diagnosed as a child does not mean that they have not had the disorder.
And with that, Russell Barkley has joined us.
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How does ADHD affect adults and children differently?
You have to understand that ADHD is a disorder of self-regulation of the executive functions of the brain. And once you assume that then you know that there’s a 30-year span — at least — over which the prefrontal lobes and their executive functions are likely to be developing. And in young children, you may not see as many of the executive deficits apart from the distractibility, the impulsivity, and maybe the hyperactivity.
But as they get older, we start to see problems with time management. Three-year-olds don’t have to have a sense of time. Thirty-year-olds do. We see problems with self-organization. Self-motivation, emotion regulation and control, among others. So with those...those take time to emerge. And the adults are going to have much more difficulty in those areas and a lot less trouble with hyperactivity and with just inhibition per se.
#actually adhd#dr russell barkley#to rename adhd#cognitive attentive tempo disorder#diagnosed adhd in 2002#diagnosed autistic in 2013#born in 1979#you get the idea#but everything changed when my mentor coined neurodivergence
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yall. i forgot to take my meds this morning.
please prepare for things to get reeeeeeeeeeal weird around here real fast
#I SWORE I REMEMBEREDDDDDDDDDDDD#UGH I HATE ADHD WHYYYYYYYYYYYY#WHY AM I LIKE THIS#AHKSDFLGHTR#GIVE ME STIMULATION#GIVE ME NEUROTRANSMITTERS TO NOM#IM HUNGRY#I WANT TO NOM#AND ALSO DANCE#I HAVE A PROJECT DUE#MY TEACHER HATES ME#I RENAMED MY CONTACTS#I ATE A SHIT TON OF SUGAR#AESRTDYFGUKRTEAWRTDYFUITREW4ERTYUIT#EAWRSTYUKI#IM SUCH AN IDIOT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY#*sobs in the corner while listening to lana del ray and taylor swift*#-- OOh and some maisie peters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ADHD is one of the most fundamentally misnamed disorders.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Let’s unpack that.
Attention-Deficit. This in of itself is misleading. I, as someone with ADHD, do not have a deficit of attention. What I do have is an extremely hard time choosing where to focus it. I can focus, for hours, with more intensity and more productively than most neurotypical people, but only on things like good books and video games and my writing and wikipedia rabbit holes and music. I cannot focus on things like homework and my job and keeping my room from turning into an absolute hurricane-level disaster and ordering my groceries. It’s not a deficit of attention, the attention is there, it’s just that I do not get to choose where it is focused.
Hyperactivity. Hyperactivity is a type of ADHD. I have combined type, so I am hyperactive, but my best friend? They have inattentive ADHD. They can sit still, and don’t need to fidget, and they are not hyperactive. But they still have ADHD. Hyperactivity is a type of ADHD, not a fundamental part of it. It’s like calling all cake “chocolate cake” even if some cakes are vanilla.
My suggestion for a new name? SRDD. Self-Regulation-Deficit Disorder. If you disagree, I’d love to hear why, and if you have another suggestion instead! Just be civil.
#adhd#rename adhd#actually adhd#op has adhd#nerodivergency#mental health#adhd-c#adhd-i#adhd-h#hyperactivity#attention#executive function
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tiktok makes me so embarrassed to tell people i have adhd
#actual adhd not#'i self diagnosed w adhd after destroying my attention span w tiktok and getting all my info from tiktoks w erroneous info and zero nuance'#it's embarrassing. a short attention span is only a tiny fraction of what adhd actually is#it really needs to be renamed to efdd (executive functioning deficit disorder)#and it has to have a serious negative impact on your life in concrete ways that aren't normal for most people! independent of other factors#everyone has 'symptoms' to some extent. how badly they affect your life is what decides whether those symptoms reach the lvl of a disorder#and tiktoks never include that very important nuance#god we went from being underdiagnosed several years ago to the completely opposite direction#i feel even worse for people with did and tic disorders. tiktok has made those into even more of a joke than adhd#it sucks#they romanticize disorders even worse than tumblr did 10 years ago!#ok rant over
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The reason I like my fics is cause I let all the characters say “fuck”. Except Ojirou. Fuck Ojirou.
#don’t ask questions#I’m so bored rn idk why#wait no ik why I’m reading a fic and the main character is bored#hyper empathy sucks this sucks#i go back and forth between no empathy and hyper empathy I miss the no empathy#actually I do like Ojirou I just. don’t think he’d say fuck#oh yeah and iida but I let him curse in one of my fics so I can’t say him#actually I wrote (part) of a fic that’s just. him cursing#i should finish that#i have the third chapter almost done#it’s been almost done for like. three months holy shit#in other news I think I have adhd#ojiro mashirao#tailman#he has such a bad hero name#i was going to rename him but I would’ve given him something worse so. it’s just like that#mha#bnha
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wait what the fuck how the fuck have i only just found out that ADHD is a fucking ADA-recognized disability. I'm genuinely so fucking mad that it took me this long to be told that what the fuck
#echos#I'VE BEEN DIAGNOSED FOR ALMOST TEN FUCKING YEARS#AND NOT ONCE DID ANYONE TELL ME I AM FUCKING PROTECTED BY THE ADA#NOT FUCKING ONCE#IT TOOK UNTIL I WAS AN ADULT TO HEAR THAT ADHD IS EVEN A DISABILITY IN THE FIRST PLACE#AND IT TOOK UNTIL NOW TO KNOW THAT *I AM LEGALLY PROTECTED BY THE ADA*#fucking HELL i fucking DESPISE how little ADHD is treated seriously#it's just treated as 'fidgety kid disorder' and NOTHING MORE#when it literally FUNDAMENTALLY AFFECTS MY BRAINS ABILITY TO FUNCTION#we need to fucking rename ADHD so ppl actually start to realize how serious it is for the people actually EXPERIENCING it#not fucking how annoying it is for the neurotypicals around the ADHD person#fucking hell
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The start of the next chapter I'm editing.
Red emergency lights cast a dim crimson hue throughout the normally bright white and gray halls of the ship.
Yune led the two kids out of a lift up two levels quickly through the corridors toward where the Horizon had latched onto the hull. He hated having to abandon the Zephyr, but the odds were high that a few Regents would have gone in to check on their buddies.
They quickly dove into a side room to avoid a group of officers running toward the engine room to investigate the problem.
Will pressed his ear against the door.
“What are you doing?” Yune hissed a soft warning.
“Listening.”
“Get away from there,” Yune had his pulse pistol out, ready to fire, “They could backtrack.”
“Cool your jets, Scavenger, they’re running away.”
“Salvager,” he corrected him with irritation at this kid’s arrogance, “Is this another thing with your power?”
“Nope,” Terra answered for her twin, since Will had to concentrate, “He can pick up specific sounds in a lot of noise. He could always do that, even before we were changed.”
“The power of super selective hearing. Should have guessed since you never listen to me. But that’s... actually impressive,” Yune blinked. Maybe that was why Will was chosen as one of the One Thousand. He had selective hearing both naturally and in the way kids usually do.
Will focused on the ‘thump’ of their boots among the other noise until it faded out completely. “They’re gone.” He grinned in victory. “See? Told you. Let’s go.” He turned to run out and immediately smacked into the door.
Yune sighed to an eye roll. He might have an advanced hearing talent, but he lacked progression in other developmental areas. “Do you have no object permanence?” he opened the door, and headed out with Terra.
“Yeah, I do. I have object--whatever that is,” Will rubbed at the sore spot on his head.
“Come on, you little moamrat.”
Will followed, “I know you are, but what am I?”
“You’re annoying.”
“I know you are, but what am I?”
“Stop it.”
“Stop it.”
Yune grit his teeth, “Sparky...”
Terra giggled.
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#leave it to my nerds#writing#writeblr#Will's ADHD makes his object permanence iffy#I need to rename ADHD in my story because it's badly named and I'm sure an advance space#society would call it something else.
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oh also today i downloaded a bunch of music too and went outside so id say productive overall
#if everything fails at least i still have digital folders to sort and rename and format forever#and lists#soo many lists and checklists#and i have soap . like in general detergent is my best mate#i need to go get a test for ocd because its 90% i have it . on top of adhd#i mean i literally fit the dsm5 criteria for ocd more than enough#txt#i forgot what i was rambling about
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changed my blog name in order to fit in with the magic and dnd related community
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What if we renamed ADHD so that it's Attention *Dysregulate* Hyperactivity Disorder?
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Shout out to one of my ADHD groups calling ADHD people Team Dolphin.
I still like to nickname it CATS - Cognitive Attentive Tempo Syndrome.
Sensei Nick Walker likes to call it Kinetic Cognitive Style.
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If anyones wondering why no art
erm... uhhh...
Art factory's clogged 😔🤚
It all stems from the dragons rising poster reveal, I noticed sora's little marking things looked like one of my OCs (who I just named like an hour ago despite having him for over 7 years now, everyone cheer ahahah)
So i went and started a dumb little doodle of the stardust trio (Akemi, Caelios, and Viktor), but I was only marginally happy with akemi's design, so I went and redesigned all of them, plus 4 other characters, one of them who is very -humanoid bug vibes-
And applied both their personalities, lifestyles, powers, backgrounds, planet resources and cultures into their outfits, which took a while to decide and ik imma redesigned em again, but then I got stuck on the 5th guy bc he's got a heavier build and I always struggle with those, plus I had to make sure his traits were consistent with his ancestor's, so I went and started a new WIP for her character ref, but I had to think really hard abt her build and outfit bc she's an important character in time's end, and then irl we went to my cousins wedding, and as soon as I came back school started back up, and I've tried to work on some writing projects too, plus keeping up the bare minimum of communication here
So yeah lol, I'm not truly busy with a big thing but there's a lot of smaller things that I havent been able to finish
#oh also i started *another* WIP thats kinda stardust next gen + the west coast gang#but i got stuck on a pose there and went to redesign blair's outfit-#*lays on the floor*#okay now that im writing this all down it really sounds like adhd had something to do with this mess#welp-#hahahaha#shut up sheo#oh also i renamed ciel to caelios#in means practically the same but fancier and also ciel sounded too much like my dad's name blegh-#like; dgmw; nothing wrong with my dads name its nice; i just dont wanna name an oc similar yk?#anyways im avoiding an assignment lol
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Day #5914 of complaining about how ADHD is misnamed and causing a lot of unintentional ableism because of how misleading the name is.
#actually adhd#adhd is misnamed#adhd#nerodivergency#mental health#complaint#rename adhd to vasd#variable attention stimulus disorder
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found an unrebloggable post and i genuinely considered dming op with a persuasive essay to let me reblog it but i’m tired so i scrolled to the next post and fucking forgot what the post was
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recorded a lecture
accidentally deleted it right after 👍
#god fuck fuck fucking fuck i hate myself#my adhd is kicking my ass today so i had to record lectures to relearn after classes#i was renaming iT THEN TRIED TO CLICK 'SAVE' INSTEAD I CLICKED 'DELETE'#:((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#today is so shit i want to jump off a building#catdrain
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peitition to rename adhd to dopamine deficiency disorder, partially because it's more accurate as a medical term and partially so we can shorten it to 3d
#original#short#adhd#actuallyadhd#mental health#neurodivergent#dopamine deficiency disorder#if we all work together#i believe we can make this real
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