And there's a lot of things that have

similar symptoms.

So really nailing down what's going on can be very, very difficult.

And there's a lot of stigma and misinformation out there of what ADHD actually is.

So it was quite a lengthy process.

It took me years to get the correct diagnosis for my daughter.

I bet.

research that our cell phones have played a big impact on the older generation with our brains because i feel like that's affected me personally

And so for anyone who's not familiar with your work, what is it that drew you into this work? And also to write that book, it all makes sense now.

So I became an ADHD coach almost by accident.

I have a daughter that was diagnosed with ADHD over a decade now.

And throughout the process of advocating for her and really learning about the ADHD brain, I came to realize that I had ADHD too.

There were lots of moments filling out that paperwork, really just seeing, you know, symptoms I didn't even realize were ADHD until after her diagnosis in my life as well, kind of moved me to pursue my own diagnosis.

And then I just started talking about it with people and realizing that there's still so much misinformation about ADHD out there.

I started having conversations with other moms and many of them also felt that they were impacted by ADHD symptoms.

But for you, what my question for you is, what What was your experience being diagnosed later in life? And could you then look back and say, oh, in my childhood, those characteristics were all ADHD that got brushed under the rug or labeled as something different?

Do you, have you found in your research that pregnancy or early motherhood, motherhood triggers ADHD or triggers its awareness of it?

it?You know, uh, women, pregnancy's tricky because some women with ADHD actually feel better during their pregnancy, uh, in terms of, like, their focus symptoms and their emotional regulation because during pregnancy your body's producing more estrogen, and estrogen helps create dopamine.

It's one of the factors that produces that.

And dopamine is what most retr- researchers think is, um, one of the differences in the ADHD brain, the way we process dopamine.

So more dopamine is better for our brains in terms of motivation and focus and all of those things people with ADHD deal with.

Um, but I don't like to say that everybody with ADHD feels better during pregnancy because I didn't.

I felt terrible during pregnancy.

Yeah.