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All I can say is nobody cared when I was undiagnosed with ADHD they just thought I was a Cry-Baby and lazy. When I got diagnosed at 60 no one cares.

All these stories are SO SO SO relatable. Unfortunately. 🥹

Diagnosed at 49 years old 2024😢 she speaks the truth.

At age 59 I realized I had add and was soon diagnosed. This after taking antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds for 30 yrs. I have been fortunate with some symptoms in that I developed coping strategies when I was young. However, there are other symptoms that I cannot ever control. I have a Ph.D in psychiatric epidemiology and do not agree with these speakers on a major point. I believe depression/anxiety can be comorbid with adhd, not caused by sxs of adhd.

12:16 “that is….past my capabilities” lol if I don’t say that every day.

No sound at the end 😢

first girl seemed mainly hyperactive not inattentive no?

I know im a year late her, but thank you so much for this video. I stumbled across a short video describing adhd traits and it described me exactly, i always thought adhd was an excuse for either bad behaviour/ parenting.......i habe been praying to gain insight into why i am the way i am and the more i look into this the more it all makes sense so thank you. Ive been very anti medical establishment and anti pharma for a few years now, delving into natural heath and medicine with a vow to never return to the doctors office. All this has began to make me rethink a few beliefs .....i guess ill be visiting a doctor again at some point. I could cry, i fonally feel like i have some answers. Thank you inattentive adhd ❤

I'm 61 years old and beginning to realize I may have ADHD.

I like what that man said about "give me two good (productive) hours a day." That may be a strategy I can work with -- because at my last job, I got more work done in one hour than my teammates did in 8 hours. Every day.

I just LOVE Elaine. Hope for us neurospicey parents and our little ones ❤

It gave me chills to listen to Simran. We have twin minds down to all the small details. I have listed to a lot of ADHD content but never resonated so much

Thank you for sharing.

I'm 70. I just found out last year. I breezed thru school,grade wise, do i was able to float through on my cloud but was abused at home. I couldn't relate to my peers , i experience time blindness to this day, then hit the wall when i went to collage. I attempted many times,i have about 2 years' worth of credits. I couldn't understand why i was able to get thru the lower grades but not collage. I'm intelligent, 125 on the IQ score. No one knew about adhd back then. My insurance won't cover the meds because of my age.

I haven't heard a word the young woman said! Switched off straight away!

This is why I've left like a failure all my life still do at 26. Im terrified to drive. Employment is difficult. My memory is bad, so yeah adhd is a burden.

Thanks for sharing this insightful conversation.. very helpful

I always said I wasn’t made for life on this earth

Being around people that accept me takes away the anxiety away

I had hell as a kid. Diagnosed with a learning disability at 22 and with ADHD at 53. Very painful experience

I understand that this interview may have been time sensitive and the information is very valuable but I felt that it was conducted in a bit of a passively rude manner.

This video series is absolutely wonderful - except for 1 thing: The way it is edited completely triggers my ADHD. The unnatural cuts so that there are no breaths and sentences are chopped up - it quite literally makes me sick to my stomach. I don't mean that as an insult, it just literally makes me sick because it throws off my enjoyment of naturally flowing prose conversation. I am not sure if it is edited this way to appeal to ADHD folks...but as someone who has serious struggles with it, this kind of editing makes it difficult for me to pay attention. But...I listen anyway because the content is great and I feel less alone.

This was really helpful. I was just diagnosed with inattentive ADHD at 41. I also have a PhD and did well in school. But I've also always struggled with perfectionism and beat myself up for "failing" all the time. I struggled a lot in grad school and felt like I didn't deserve my degree. I recall sitting in the library trying to read research for my comp exam and just finding it impossible to stay on task and concentrate on what I was reading. In recent years, I've had the same struggle at work as the demands got too high for me to juggle. It started to click because in the past year I adopted an organization system (GTD) that helped tremendously with not forgetting things. Letting tasks and follow ups slip through the cracks, etc. And I was better able to tell people no when they asked for things because I was actually aware of what was on my plate and could make a decision instead of thinking I better do that now do so I don't forget. I've still been having a hard time accepting the diagnosis, but hearing about other similar experiences helps.

It’s quite amazing how Aron can describe my life so accurately without having ever met me 😂

I feel like I’m listening to myself talk? Only child. Mom in education. Was in private school until 6. ADHD didnt rear its head until post grad school. My initial dx was major depressive disorder/general anxiety. I’m 32! 😭

I am watching it on 1.25x

You always feature people who are wildly successful in defeating ADHD . So happy. How about the people whose lives are still being devastated by this monster. Feature them! Let them tell you how they are suffering now! Show the devastation in real time .

You definitely homed in on the issues but I have used a lot of the apps and consequences etc. but I don’t care about money, losing money is not punishment I think because it’s easier to pay more to be who you really are. 😂 I’m not competitive. What works for me is if someone is counting on me or THEY lose money if I don’t do something… I care more about that than about me losing money 😂 so that doesn’t really work. When I am on medication it’s like 👍🏻 then the things work. The first thing I did on medication was to make a sheet to keep track of my daily calories and I did for an entire year every day. I lost 70 lbs and became a healthy eater and fit. I had schedules which worked-I used the “Routinist” app, for example. ❤ I was MUCH more calm and emotionally stable. I stopped getting traffic tickets all the time… 😂 An itchy rash on my ankle went away that I had for 30 years 😮within 1 week. It’s extremely stressful to be add, because your brain tricks you. I would make plans to eat healthy and then while I was driving stop for junk food and then remember that I had planned to eat healthy while eating the junk food. It’s the reward system of the brain that is defective too-not just the time sense. I have that SUPER BAD. Been fired multiple times for being late. Things which automatically reward others are neutral or negative to me. Like checking things off a list. It seems alien, extremely weird that people would find that rewarding. It’s just so you don’t forget… 🤷‍♀️ but then I forget to check the list…. Anyway, with medication everything works. Like plugging in a computer. I think the reason people don’t understand adhd is because they think they are “deciding” to do all these things that they have the dopamine or Norepinephrine to sustain. It’s not “deciding” and since we have language which puts these ingrained patterns into words we mistake the how for the why. We can do all these things it’s a reward and therefore an attention thing. I have a 160 IQ, for example but I live in my car homeless and work a menial job and have declared bankruptcy more than once… since the pandemic ruined all my plans right in the middle of changing my life I lost my health insurance and medication and now I’m stuck in my car. I have 3 books I was writing which are almost done but I can’t finish them. I actually stopped writing my magnum opus and wrote a much shorter book which there’s videos about on my channel so you know I’m legit 😂❤ To me, medication is absolutely life-saving. Even the book writing thing, I stopped to do an easier thing without medication. Now that I think about it. But I am EXTREMELY creative and hyper-focus on the book subject. I think being extremely smart makes adhd much much more unbearable-especially when you are constantly doing “stupid” things and people assume you are SUPER STUPID instead of super smart. 🫣ouch…. Some days I just like going to the emergency room for add meds because it is definitely life-threatening, life ruining. If anyone has any ideas or advice I need to get back on meds. I finally got to the doctor on public health out here, after 2 years of trying, but it’s an absolute nightmare. I have to Make a different appointment with another place and I can’t even get through or a return call. I would absolutely go to a private physician or something please help if you can. Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤ It’s a vital necessity for me in order to even have basic relationships 😢 If you have it really bad, you can’t even organize enough to get help… ya.

Seen a lot videos on this topic. But i actually felt so connected to the experiences of the two last speakers. Thank you for sharing this video!

I disagree with all these people becoming "superman" after they were diagnosed. Where are the people who are actually struggling still??? I want to hear from those people.

Super informative!

I just got diagnosed at age 52, inattentive type ADHD, Now it all makes sense!

Aron Croft described my entire life up until this point.

The lady mentions law school. As someone with ADHD, it BLOWS MY MIND that someone can study law or medicine...to me, asking me to do so much study would be like asking me to climb Mt Everest. I just cannot comprehend someone being able to do that. I'd love to help people as a lawyer or doctor but boy...I'd last about 5mins in a course like that

Not liking rule imposed on you LOL - I always just thought I was a stubborn jerk...just NOW realizing it's part of ADHD!!!! LOL Also, the immaturity is a problem. When I was in my teens and all my friends were cool and mature around girls, I kinda childish. Now I know, thanks to Russel Barkley, that people with ADHD mature slower..or are less mature for their age. Anyone else notice that? Also, does anyone else feel their ADHD gives them a fun way of viewing things? I started saying my funny thoughts out loud and people find it hilarious. Just an observation...

I was naturally good at math. Final year of highschool, teachers moved me to the higher level math class. Lost first day because it they were extremely difficult concepts, and I'd missed the fundamentals at the start of each lesson because I was day-dreaming/distracted...and everything after that made zero sense. Plus the class moved VERY fast. Plus I wasn't used to spending 2hrs each night doing ONLY math homework - that coupled with procrastination...yikes...after only a few weeks I had to move back to standard level math LOL Felt like such a failure. I felt a little redeemed at the end of the year when many failed the final exams in higher level math paper...and many of the really good math students just scraped a pass (40%)...plus the following year they had to make that class/exam easier because so many students all over the country failed the final exam the year I 'graduated' high school. Still....I always wonder if I'd not had ADHD issues how I'd have done. I feel I'm slightly above average intelligence, but not gifted LOL - hope that doesn't sound like bragging...I don't do any better in life than most...I feel intelligence can be measured in many way...plus we only have what God gives us, so I could not take credit even if I was gifted

while i appreciate the turn around stories for ME these are just way to unrelatable in the sense that these people were (on my metrics) already very very successful before their diagnosis😢

My boss said, 'Theres something wrong with her' in a meeting. Simply because i chose to complete a task differently to how she preferred to do it. Of course, I kept it together, then balled my eyes out and booked an appointment with my younger brother's psychologist. Of course im an adhder, but those words haunted me for a long time. I was 30 when i was diagnosed and thats when everything made sense. I wish some people could be kinder.

I am from Morocco in north Africa and this is the fourth, maybe the fifth, time I see this video. Each time I see it, you can't imagine how much I get emotionnal. I feel everytime like solving the puzzle of my life, I get overwhelmed. So, I visited a physician and she diagnosed me with ADHD. Unfortunately, we don't have Stratera and stimulants in my country. Sometimes, I think to immigrate to get proper treatment for me and my child. So sad. Anyway, thank you soooo much for sharing these videos.

Wow, this was so helpful. I am 69 and as yet undiagnosed ADHD. I have been obsessively educating myself on the condition since my sister and daughter told me i have it- but never managed to put 'get assessed for ADHD' on my to do list when i was in the US (i havent found anyone who can do it where i live). I was amazed when they first told me, but as i have been reading up so many light bulbs have been going off! This video has encouraged me to make the effort to get diagnosed even at my age.

Add and autism

At age 46 I decided to accept my doctor’s suggestion in taking Vyvanse. I did. On the 3rd day on it I noticed a strange sense of calm and quietness inside of me! Wow! I thought “oh! This is how feeling like an adult feel likes” Everything was so tranquil.

I'd love to be treated by him. He walks the talk. He knows about it. He lives the issues that ADHDers deal with. Plus he is a doctor. He is smart AF! Edit: I need to say that Katherine Ellison is such a good interviewer. She is so sweet and compassionate.

I’m finding it really funny that this video is so jumpy and the speech doesn’t match the subtitles entirely. It seems like they’ve tried to cut out every word that wasn’t completely necessary/informative (I’m not sure I like describing people’s words as ‘unnecessary’ but I’m not quite sure how to put it). Did they tried to make the video more concise for people who struggle to focus for long periods and whose minds might start wondering between the main bits of information?

ivebeen looking for help since tthe 1990s.. waiting for a phone call presently.

Wow this is so powerful as black man who has Inattentive ADHD your answer to what would you tell your 8 year self is so powerful because I would say the same thing and more , it makes feel that you was talking to me 🙌🙌🙌🙌

Thank you. It's so interesting and helpful 🙏🏾

Ariyanna, thank you for being you! I appreciate your honesty and vulnerability. I was diagnosed with ADHD at 40. Your work and your contributions mean so much to me. Sending you gratitude and well wishes.

A year into law school with ADHD...everything is fine until we start writing papers which for an ADHD person is NOT FINE.

Its so funny to watch the three none presenters. The guy is so adhd he cant sit still and the other lady is doing her best to stay still and concetrate but is obviousky keeping herself occupied with something she is writting or doodling. I get it thats me on a teams meeting