How to Deal With ADHD and Other Disabilities

"I find it diminishes the shame and the hurt amongst other things that I've felt for years," says a 47-year-old woman with ADHD. "Almost all of us have an inappropriate emotional reaction that isn't one that is just fucking annoying and rude or ablest and wrong" If you're close to someone who doesn't understand your ADHD try talking to them on an emotional level, she suggests. Alex: How does it make you feel to be forgetful or to interrupt people? Mary eb: It makes me feel like a fraud."