Nearly Everything You Need to Know about ADHD in About 10 Minutes

I recently gave an interview to ADDA in a “TADD Talk”

ADDA is a worldwide inclusive community of supportive ADHD adults who make it possible to thrive with ADHD. ADDA was created by adults with ADHD for adults with ADHD and is run by adults with ADHD. Every year as part of ADHD Awareness Month, ADDA brings you…

What’s a TADD Talk? We Talk about ADD every day for the entire month of October! You’ve heard of “TED” talks? Silly question. Everyone’s heard of TED talks.

TADD Talks are an ADHD-friendly riff on “TED talks.” TED talks are 18-minute presentations on a variety of interesting subjects, and TADD recordings are only 9 minutes long (we do have a shorter attention span, you know!) on interesting ADHD topics.

The interview begins:

Hi, I’m Dr. Sarah Cheyette. I’m here to help you learn nearly everything you need to know about ADHD in about 10 minutes, so let’s roll.

We’re going to talk about what ADHD is, why we care about it, and how to treat it. First of all, let’s talk about what ADHD is. I’m not going to give you a long list of symptoms.

Here’s the concept. Everybody focuses. Sometimes everybody is not focused. Sometimes that’s true for everybody, including all people with ADHD too.

To summarize a lot of neurobiology, there’s a switch in everyone’s brain that moves your brain to focus sometimes and not focus sometimes in ADHD that switches in the not focus state too much of the time.

That’s essentially what ADHD is. Why do we care about it? Let’s think about what focus does for you. Here’s what focus is to your brain.