What ADHD self-talk actually sounds like | ADHD Aha!

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]When the nurse asks you if you're doing okay after you give birth you say, "I'm fine." and then in italics you stupid liar. That is the way that so many of us speak to ourselves. How do you think your ADHD has played into that?

[00:00:11]>> It played into it pretty hugely. It was one of my tools of motivating myself. Do you feel like the idea of motherhood kind of being the thing that leads you ultimately to getting diagnosed with ADHD is that like the things that you're beating yourself up about you can't just automatically change?

[00:00:26]>> Yeah, you can't be mean to yourself forever about everything. And I think it was realizing that and also realizing like if I keep doing this, this is what my daughter is going to learn. Yeah. If I talk to myself this way, I'm probably going to speak to her this way or she's going to notice me speaking to myself this way and that is going to become her inner monologue.