Name: 'Frustration is a huge part of my life with ADHD' | BBC Ideas
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Every day, it feels like I'm fighting my brain.

Thank you so much for coming on the tour.

I think frustration is a huge part of my life, because every day is a bit of a kind of task to get through it and not to mess up massively.

You know, you forget your keys, you forget your wallet.

The amount of times I've missed parties that my friends have organised months in advance.

Where every day, there's a million things in this tombola ball that need to be done or things I need to remember.

You know, text your mate or, you know, oh, it's your mate's birthday or you need to eat or you need to get a coffee tank.

And my body will kind of spit a ball out.

I'm really... I've had a couple of little nuggets, but no nothing, really, so I'm intrigued.

You're supposed to see your parents in half an hour!

But it's like he's choosing them completely randomly.

You do need to do your bike insurance and now seems like the perfect time.

Ooh, and before that, why don't we go over Henry's top ten cringiest moments?

You see, every day it feels like I'm fighting my brain just to get through the very basic of tasks.

Oh, and you need to send that email to Julie.

Your boss already thinks you're an idiot.

Sometimes this constant barrage sends me into a spiral.

It feels like I'm trapped in a riptide, trying to keep my head above water, whilst he drags me down.

Some days it's really hard to cope and my brain just won't work at all.

The latest and the worst you've ever done to us.

You're a mess. You're the biggest waste of space.

See, my path through life is going to be different.

And I'd love for you to be alongside with me all the way.

I think I was aware, we were aware, that there's a lot of stuff going on.

I think what I didn't know is just quite how much it's affecting you.

It's incredibly naive, but I only thought that ADHD would affect school.

I just don't think I thought beyond that.

And not realising that there are, you know, there are so many things that you have to be able to accomplish, you know, just to do your daily life.

I didn't want you guys to think it was something that you had to kind of pick up and put back together.

No, no, no. That's not what I want it to be.

No, no, that sense of we're trying to fix you.

The bit I'm really struggling with is this sort of shame thing, cos we're so proud of you.

Honestly, I could float through the ceiling.

I feel so much better. Oh, great. Good. Yeah.

..yeah, beautiful conversations I've had with them to do with this.

I don't know, it feels like I've taken the frost off a windshield.

Mission accomplished. Mission accomplished.

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