Ep 57 | TRAILER | ADHD and Dyslexia: Empowering Lives, Breaking Barriers feat. Jacob Kelly

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My wife was pregnant with my daughter and wewere like, well, I'll look up what it's like.
There must be some books on dads with ADHD andthere was nothing. There was no books about
or parents talking about what it's like to bea parent with ADHD. There was loads of stuff
about being a parent of children with ADHD butthere was nothing. I remember just thinking
this is terrible. This is useless. I'm justgoing in blind. So I was like, well, I don't

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want this feeling for anyone else. I'll startwriting little like top tips for the first
trimester, second trimester, first trimesterand then start saying stuff on Twitter. And
then when my daughter was born, she was thefirst girl to be born in our family in like
85 years. So I was like, oh, like, I know ADHDcan sometimes be prominent in the children.

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I'll do some research in ADHD in girls. Andit was just nothing there. This is like now
in the world we live in now, it's like hugeADHD in girls. back even six years ago, nothing.
Yeah, just any impulsive stuff. I always rememberat Christmas dinner, I'd be impulsive, whine

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my brothers up, get in a fight or just annoypeople. Not really thinking about that. And
I remember being told by multiple family members,oh, you've ruined Christmas, you've ruined
Christmas. But what they don't see is the memoryof whatever impulsive thing I did has gone,
but the shame and guilt of you've ruined Christmas.I still think of that at the age of 36.

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same mental health trust that I worked for andthey were like, Oh, we're doing an ADHD event.
Would you be up for doing a talk? I was like,yeah, that's fine. And then I went to the event
and it was an ADHD sort of conference, but itwas attended by some like 200 ADHD people in
Bristol. And that was really like the firsttime I'd ever met an adult or anyone with ADHD

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knowingly. And so from going from no one tobeing in a room of 200, I was like, Oh my God.
Like it was just like. one of the best experiencesof my life. There's nothing that can describe
it really. It's just like being with peoplethat are like you, that have been through the
pain that you've been through and that you canjust talk about the horrible bits but then

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