This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video where Andre Brisson describes his personal experience after an ADHD diagnosis: extensive reading, reframing ADHD as a neurological difference rather than personal failure, and proposing a simple, three-part "ADHD simplifying model" to manage symptoms.
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Yeah. So in a way, what I ended up doing, a long time. And I think even as a kid, I created, like an ADHD structure that kind of managed my symptoms unknowingly. And then when I did, when I deep dive deep, I dived deep. So I think the first year after diagnosis, I did about 30 books on ADHD, varying from small novels to a couple textbooks. And I'm starting to look at this. And when I realized it was not a. It's a brain thing. It's not a personal failure. You're. You're not stupid or dumb or lazy. It's just the brain reacts differently and. And everyone's trying to make it too complex. So it's a dopamine, serotonin. You gotta figure all that stuff, the brain stuff, well, even though scientists don't understand how it works, so why are we trying to figure that out? And then I looked at it, just starts screaming at me after a while. It's three things. So it's what I call the ADHD simplifying model. If I just manage these three things, everything else will work.