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AfterMeth Podcast Shorts: ADHD - It's Not Your Fault

23 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this short segment of the AfterMeth podcast, the host discusses ADHD from a compassionate, non‑judgmental standpoint. He argues that ADHD should not be framed as a fixed, purely biological diagnosis that carries blame or guilt. Instead, he suggests that while a person's environment—including parental awareness—may not have met specific needs, this does not constitute fault. The focus shifts to the individual's current functioning and their capacity to evolve, develop flexibility, and reshape their relationship with themselves as they move into adulthood. The central claim is that the challenge of adult ADHD lies less in external management and more in how one thinks about and adapts to the condition.

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Hmm. And, and when people sort of want to push toward it being something that's fixed, it's a diagnosis, it's biological, as you're grappling with ADHD and in the world as it's adapting to it. But there's no judgment. You know, it isn't that you had a bad parent, but it might be that you had a particular set of needs that your parent wasn't able to notice, recognize, or respond to for whatever reason. So there's no blame and there's no guilt. It was what it was. It's a question of you got to where you got to. You are where you are in the world. You know, you function the way that you function. What can you, you know, what's, what's your capacity to evolve? Evolve through that, to change that, to, to, um, to develop a greater degree of flexibility, a different relationship with yourself. Because I think a lot of the issue with ADHD as you get into adulthood isn't just that it's difficult to sort of manage your life, it's what you think about that.