You sir, are doing the Lord's work. And I could not be more grateful for it. Thank you from someone who was diagnosed almost a decade ago, and just recently realized it was, in fact, a real thing, not just an excuse given to me.
1 month ago | 53
I took your episode on hyper mobility and ADHD to my therapist this week and cried my eyes out. I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until a year and a half ago at age 45. I was the dancer always running into things. Always getting into car wrecks. Always late. Over the top imaginative. Dancing ballet in the outfield of every sport in PE class. Felt like I was smart but always left behind and not invited to advanced classes because of my inability to focus on math. Ignored. Now, at this age, it’s hard to remember that I AM smarter than I was given credit for.
1 month ago | 12
Thank you for everything you are doing for this community Alex. Late diagnosis but although I've cried buckets for the child, teenage, young me I'm also incredibly happy (who knew I'd ever know that feeling)! I'm just being unapologetically ME now. I think I've apologised for just being ME enough.
1 month ago | 1
You are a ray of sunshine and positive reinforcement to all us ND folk. Wish you'd been in my life years ago. I feel brighter for hearing your feeds, and am learning to embrace my neurodivergence after years and years of not knowing why I was different and didn't feel like I belong....big thank you from my ND mum too!
1 month ago | 8
@nicolebreakofdaywabaunsee3213
You’re a true inspiration at a time most needed. Thank you.
1 month ago | 8
Years of being too loud, the queen of TMI and generally seen as odd..... yes
1 month ago | 22
So POWERFUL! So WONDERFULLLL to hear, that you have hugged people.. and taken the time to chat and engage, and that in itself is being seen, heard, acknowledged. I LOVE Hugs! So Healing and such a beautyfull exchange of love from one person to another. EnJOY the Rest of your Week. ;)
1 month ago | 2
Thank you for doing what you are doing, you help so many people and raise awareness. I also am in the process of getting proper diagnosed and my emotions are all over the place. If you want, feel warmly hugged and embraced back. I appreciate your work so much. Big up from germany and keep beeing you Alex 🫶
1 month ago | 5
Alex, I'm so happy that you are doing talks in schools 😊😊 you will definitely reach that younger version of yourself by doing this. You are the best person to take that job on 💚💚
1 month ago | 12
You're a truely good human!!! You make the world so much better for all of us 💛
1 month ago | 1
It must be done. The thing I hate is that we are made to go to school where we do not do well. Imagine AI school, pivoting to what is interesting in the moment keeping brain activity up and dopamine up. Instead we're made bored and punished for years
1 month ago | 12
I have tears in my eyes reading this. May all that love fuel your Herculean task. THANK YOU
1 month ago | 1
I absolutely loved reading your book. Thank you for all that you do - hopefully being diagnosed at some point this year (aged 44)
1 month ago | 2
ADHD Chatter Podcast
I’ve hugged 20 people so far this week, each person with tears in their eyes.
As I journey through neurodiversity celebration week, as I take the stage 14 times in schools and businesses, relentlessly raising ADHD awareness, I see similarities in the people I’m speaking with.
They’re emotional because they finally feel seen, finally feel heard after years of feeling misunderstood.
Years of being called ‘too sensitive’ or ‘too much’ by people in their life that simply don’t ‘get it’.
Years of feeling broken and feeling different.
One of the best things about being an ADHD spokesperson is witnessing the moment people finally realise that they were never broken, simply different, that they have incredible strengths and that they have always been enough.
It’s a true privilege to witness the celebration in front of my eyes.
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