Mel Robbins

You then go through all of the neuropsych evaluation testing, and then you sit back and go,

That seems a lot like me.

And I literally turned to my pediatrician and said, you know, Mark, do you think I have ADHD?

And he was like, Mel, of course you have ADHD.

You're the most ADHD parent I know.

I'm like, why didn't you tell me?

He's like, I'm not your doctor.

They say it can be, they actually say that it can be impacted by what's going on when you're in utero and the stress levels of the parent or the mom and whether or not she's under a lot of stress because it relates to your fight or flight nervous system as well.

And it impacts, the way it was explained to me, because again, like everything in life, it's like bad things need to happen.

And then I realize, okay, I'm fucked.

I got to figure this out.

And then I turn it into a research project.

And then I try to explain what I've learned in the simplest ways.

So anybody else, if I can save them the headache and the heartache that I went through for decades,

30, 40 years not knowing what I was really dealing with, just like you will, not knowing what you're dealing with and self-medicating and acting out and feeling hypercritical of yourself.

If I can just know what this thing is, that I'm not deficient, I just have a brain that works differently.

And with ADHD, I would go to this, you know when you are in college or high school and you're like, all right, I gotta study.

And you know you can go to the library where you're gonna see your friends or you go to the stacks.

And so I would go to the stacks and I'm like, okay, I gotta study.

And I would sit down and I'd be ready to like lock in.