ADHD

26/100 ADHD
Early on in my EF learning I listened to a podcast with clinical psychiatrist, professor and ADHD researcher Dr Russell Barkley as the guest and he said “ADHD is an executive disorder because it interferes with all Executive Functions… other disorders like autism, bipolar or brain injury may interfere with only 1 or 2.” For me personally this was news and ADHD runs strongly in my family, myself included. Yet, I had never really heard anybody put ADHD in those terms before. I always thought of it as an attention issue or maybe a hyperactivity issue, but now that I have spent the last few months really thinking about it as an Executive Function thing it makes so much more sense to me. It also made me think of how many people, 11 % of the world’s population, struggle with ADHD. Since learning this I have had many conversations with people who deal with ADHD on a daily basis who also had no idea. I hope as Executive Functions become a bigger part of our everyday conversation more and more people will see this connection. #100daysofefportraits #efportraits