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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Fits Is it just me? Or does everybody these days

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Speaker 1: get diagnosed with ADHD? Now, I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: that loosely without a medical background, because I know that's

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Speaker 1: what it sounded like. It's just seems to be that

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Speaker 1: anybody who has any kind of difference or variation in

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Speaker 1: behavior quite often it's put down to ADHD. Well, I

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Speaker 1: don't think you're the specialist in the field. I'm certainly

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Speaker 1: not the specialist in the field. But you know what's

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Speaker 1: great When one person has ADHD, they become a spokesperson

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Speaker 1: for everybody and they become on the lookout. So Ollie

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Speaker 1: who's got ADHD on the team, he will often say

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Speaker 1: to me.

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Speaker 2: You've got ADHD.

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Speaker 1: So now I'm not saying that I don't I've never

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Speaker 1: been diagnosed with ADHD, but a lot of people have

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Speaker 1: said to me over the years, everything that you do

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Speaker 1: is ADHD. Well, I think I think the most important

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Speaker 1: thing is I think people need a diagnosis sometimes just

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Speaker 1: to understand that they can how to deal with it. Yeah. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and there's a medical side to it where medication medications

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Speaker 1: can absolutely help. But it just seems to be so

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Speaker 1: on trend. Do you want a la Boo boo doll

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Speaker 1: or do you want ADHD? What are you into? Anyway,

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Speaker 1: in trying to self assess whether I've got ADHD, and

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Speaker 1: I know some of my behaviors and habits are a

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Speaker 1: little bit radic, I understand that I've found some audio

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Speaker 1: that I want to play from you, and it's from

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Speaker 1: a TikToker and her name's Olivia. But she's tried to

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Speaker 1: describe what it's like living with ADHD. And when I

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Speaker 1: heard this, I thought to myself, maybe I do have ADHD.

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Speaker 1: Because if I am in a situation where I'm at

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Speaker 1: the pub or at leasha and I go out for

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Speaker 1: dinner and someone's tapping a spoon in the other corner

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Speaker 1: of the restaurant, that's all I can hear, and that

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Speaker 1: rings so loudly in my ears. So loud noises are

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Speaker 1: really really sensitive for me. So it's those sorts of traits.

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Speaker 1: So she's described what it's like and what it sounds

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Speaker 1: like if you're in a busy room if you have ADHD.

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Speaker 1: She's put this together.

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Speaker 2: Imagine having a conversation in a noisy place like a

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Speaker 2: mall or cafe and you no longer have the ability

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Speaker 2: to ignore irrelevant scene. Why your background is is setting

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Speaker 2: me in volume and welcome You're bringing to a overloomed

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Speaker 2: like everything living on what I'm taking.

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Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like, what it sounds like for you?

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Speaker 2: Yes it is?

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Speaker 1: Well, why do you keep talking to us at the

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Speaker 1: dinner table?

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Speaker 2: For me? If that's what you hear, why don't you

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Speaker 2: shut up? I'm only talking louder because I think you

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Speaker 2: can't hear me either. Maybe you've got adhd Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: what a great example of what it's like to live

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Speaker 2: with not saying that I've got it because I've never

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Speaker 2: been diagnosed by professional fits.

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