ADHD "Of My Era?!" - Rick has ADHD

Is my ADHD just a thing of it’s time?

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Hi I’m Rick Green,

I wanted to respond to a comment that a viewer made on our YouTube channel on the video about “ADHD is Not a Mental Illness”.

And the message there is that it’s not an illness, it’s the way you’re wired, an illness you can cure.

She writes “at 61 diagnosed with depression for the third time in my life” yeah huge overlap with ADHD and depression, “this time however, armed with information from good people like you” you’re welcome “I was encouraged to seek better for myself”.

Ah that’s awesome, that’s the whole point isn’t it “this began for me around age 11, I’m the poster child for ADHD in women of my era” yeah we’ll talk about that “my entire life has felt a certain way, this information and the scars you discuss are real, with my underlying ADHD now identified I’m able to switch my understanding to help myself you have a great channel”.

Well thank you and you made a great comment, and thanks to our patrons who make this channel possible, so that phrase of my era, there was when I was diagnosed 25, 25 years ago? Yeah 25 years ago when I was diagnosed there was still the belief that you had to be rowdy and disruptive, which I wasn’t, I was a boy so that counted, and that I would grow out of it, which I didn’t clearly.

But so many women have of what is called the predominantly inattentive subtype, there’s a couple of reasons why it was dismissed in women, the possibility.

First of all a lot of women were socialized to behave and be quiet and be people pleasers.

Second the boys are trained, were supposed to be macho, and and troublemaker, and mischievous, and so on.

And the third thing is that many women, and some men, but it seems like it’s more common in women, have what is called the predominantly inattentive subtype, so they’re not struggling with the impulsivity, with the hyperactivity, the restlessness, the blurting out, they’re lost in daydreams and the teacher completely misses it and just assumes the girl’s a little a little dumb, and that’s what she’s talking about when she said of my era, it’s a new era, things are changing and I’m glad that we are part of that and you are too.

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