Why ADHD Adults know they are meant for more 

‼️‼️‼️Okay, so now, please, please, please, tell us how we create those new pathways so we can use our executive functions.‼️‼️‼️

I feel so understood right now... I'd always say i feel like there is a block in my brain, that actually made my head feel physically painful if i push too hard... Exercise has always relieved that tension I'd feel... And lately I've been learning how to code, at first it was really frustrating but it's actually teaching me how to do things in bit sizes instead of trying to do everything all at once... Which i feel is helping build those new pathways... The way i accumulate certificates #smh

How??? I've known this was going on for so long... before I even knew I had adhd I always said I know and understand things, I can even create a masterpiece of plan in my mind... but when I attempt to apply it to real life... idk. Shatters. And I'm left wandering what the actual hek... and ohhh the shame. 😢

I feel like my brain is trapped in a glass cage. I can see and know things but can't get to it.

Not to mention all the people that tell you while you're growing up that you're so smart and you have so much potential, if only you would apply yourself more, try harder, and pay more attention. It was so disheartening when I WAS TRYING MY HARDEST THE WHOLE TIME!!! Aaaahhh childhood sucked!!

ironically banging your front head with your palm out of frustration is sooo ironic.

how would you recommend going about that? (working on connecting the knowledge part with the executive part of the brain)?

I got so good at math and writing growing up but I could never explain why, it almost felt like I was doing the skills through intuition. Like if I was editing someone's essay, I couldn't explain why a paragraph sounded better if the sentences were split up in a certain way, it just read better in my brain, like a musical rhythm. And I was good at writing in different styles, for example in high school when we were tasked to write a monologue from the perspective of a character in Romeo and Juliet, my teacher was impressed with my ability to mimic Shakespeare's style (not comparing me to Shakespeare of course but the fact that I was able to use Old English in a similar way). But I wouldn't be able to explain how to do that, again it just felt intuitive and came with practice. The more I relied on intuition rather than planning it out ahead of time, the better my writing would be, and I would pour over and edit 4-5 times before submitting to make it "perfect." I got 96/97% in English all through middle school and high school with different teachers. It's worse now that I've been out of practice though. And I only got 80s in math in elementary because we also got graded on how well we explained why we did certain steps and I just couldn't do that well, it was frustrating because I was like, I did those steps in that order because it made sense to my brain, okay? 😂 But I got better at explaining math concepts as I taught my friends and others more. The motivation to help someone struggling and trying to organize the information in a way that another person's brain can interpret and understand it forces you to practice those executive functions of planning and execution. And so I finished high school with the highest grade in adanced math. So I think that's the key for people with ADHD, to try to learn something with the intent to teach it.

THANK YOU!!! I’ve described this as such: The computer is on and fully functioning, but it feels like the printer is jammed!! 👻✨💫❤

I have never heard this explained this way by anyone except myself trying to describe the struggle and I’m so grateful you shared. I think the long term effects of constantly not being able to retrieve that knowledge when we know it’s there, has caused me to suffer with the emotional physiology of learned helplessness. I can even recognize that’s what is causing my lack of motivation. It’s so heartbreaking and feels like my brain is speaking 2 different languages and I don’t know how to interpret one for everyone else. This is why I also struggled with selective mutism as a child and even as an adult sometimes the simple act of speaking feels harder than doing a push up at 8 months pregnant.

This feels so pertinent! I'm in my mid 50s now...sort of feeling like life has passed me by as far as my career goes..but had no inking why until this year...moving forward in the rest of my time is going to be the challenge. So much time lost...but still plenty ahead hopefully.

Is that why I freeze and a word is on the top of my tongue? Word retrieval issues? I also do t love Details… I am big picture person? Just wondering

Please tell us how we can rewire our brains to connect.

I just found this lady and I love her already! Preach sister, preach. 🫶

That is exactly what I feel you nailed it

I rember my mother, who was a teacher in her home country, telling a teen second cousin (weekly) that he was very smart but not so good at schoiol learning but very smart at practical learning. Evennttually he started his own business and did quite well financialy and had a happy marriage and postive relations with his kids.

Passion for what I need to be doing helps, ions.

How?

Thank you!! You just explained everything I am going through. I am really putting effort into train to get a better position at work. I have told myself for so long I couldn’t do it but I know I really can. Thank you.

This explains how I feel. I would like to hear more on this idea because it sounds like you’re saying executive function problems can be “cured,” but I don’t think that’s possible. Maybe you mean we can learn to work around them.

I feel like giftedness and/or anxiety makes up for a lot of the distinction that ADHD causes. I don't really have a problem remembering things for example.

Meat cleaver? Mine feels more like a snow-globe filled with glass shards and disappointment.

Interesting thought you have

Makes me wanna cry... and pantic attack because i know thats the story.of.my life being blocked in all that i do.

How? I’m so frustrated.

The video in the description is not clickable.

Yes!!!!

So true

This is why I hate most shorts... Tell us about something, then leave us hanging.

Can you please refer to the academic paper that supports your claim that "you can express EVERYTHING that's in that big, beautiful brain of yours"?

Wish they wod finish explaining ingredients how

I've tried 4 different medication and nothing works i actually don't know what to do, im 19 and i have a huge lack of purpose and motivation so im really lazy. Would going to the neurologist be a good idea?

❤😊

Agh this is so me😭💔

Until what age is this possible to do?

Thank you so much for your inspiring and encouraging words. My daughter needs to see a ADHD specialist in NYC or online, any tips how I can find one? Thanks!

HOW? I am listening...

The strongest hairline in history 😮

HOW??!

Could you link the whole video in your description? The link doesn’t work in the comment section.

I haven’t come across this before and I’m sceptical. The way this video states its claim like a cure is what troubles me. If this were true wouldn’t ADHD based treatment cover this?

How???

Ok but how?

How

Yea but how

yes how

How I really need to know my everything is riding on that release.

How ????????????

How do I fix it? Please someone tell me what to do? I'm going to die

Please explain!!!!!

Explain How???

As someone with a PhD in neuroscience, this is not what’s happening in the brain with ADHD.

Most of my life was over when I realised I had ADHD so it's too late for me to train my brain.

I have a meat cleaver!!! 🫶

How?

How???