ADHDifference - IMPATIENCE

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Julie Legg and Jel Legg discuss impatience – what triggers theirs, what extreme impatience can result in, and how this ADHD trait affects them personally.
From supermarket queues to road rage, extreme impatience has led them to be impulsive, irrational, overly emotional, accident prone, and have an impact on their health. Impatience, along with other ADHD challenges, are often intertwined.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The relationship between dopamine and extreme impatience.
• Triggers such as waiting in queues, driving and technology.
• Careless mistakes and being accident prone.
• Anxiety.
• Over-talking and interrupting.
• Interrelated ADHD traits such as impulsivity, emotional dysregulation.

Key takeaways:

• Everyone (including neurotypicals) will experience impatience in their lives however those with ADHD may experience extreme impatience, often.
• Not all ADHD brains are impatient about the same things. We are all different and can be triggered in different environments.
• Extreme impatience may lead to impulsivity and emotional dysregulation (also ADHD interrelated traits) resulting in anxiety, or regrettable actions, whether verbal or physical.
• Distraction therapy can help during impatient moments to help calm the ADHD brain or shift focus.
• At times impatience may be observed as irrational or unreasonable by neurotypicals and simply statements such as “just chill out” are not helpful, nor necessarily achievable.

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Julie is the author of THE MISSING PIECE: A Woman's Guide to Understanding, Diagnosing and Living with ADHD (Harper Collins, 2024).

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