Think It but You Don't Have to Say It

10 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this short advisory segment, the speaker addresses how ADHD can lead to impulsive, literal responses that often result in oversharing personal details. They explain that people with ADHD may feel compelled to share extensive backstory when asked simple questions, which can make them vulnerable with strangers or those they haven’t yet trusted. The speaker recommends a pause before answering direct questions, encouraging listeners to consider whether the information is necessary or appropriate to share, and to assess whether the asker has earned their trust. This pause-and-evaluate approach aims to help individuals with ADHD manage impulsivity, protect their privacy, and improve social interactions.

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If you have ADHD, one thing to remember that could be really helpful is a lot of times you can think it, but you don't have to say it. The reason this happens a lot with ADHD is because we tend to be very impulsive and we take a lot of things literally. And if somebody says, how are you doing? We answer them and we'll say, oh, my dog died yesterday and I'm really having a hard time. And they just wanted us to say, I'm good, how are you? And one piece of this we don't always think about is whether or not people have earned our trust. So a lot of times somebody can ask us a direct question, we'll give them the direct answer, and we give them all of this backstory and all this extra information that they didn't ask for. And it actually makes us pretty vulnerable with people that we haven't really earned trust with yet. So when somebody asks you a direct question, it's really important to try to pause. And if you pause for a second and think, do they really need to know this, or is this what I really wanna share with them? That can help you not overshare.