Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine.

Everyone, my name is Annie Rogers, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I am so pleased to welcome you to solve my problem.

Over the next 40 minutes or so, Dr. Sharon Selene, a clinical psychologist, author, and

longtime attitude contributor will answer your questions about all things ADHD.

So whether you're a parent seeking advice for your child or an adult seeking help with managing your own symptoms or both, this session is for you. Dr. Celine,

thank you so much for joining us today. We are excited to get started. I'm so excited to be here. I'm coming to you from the

neurodiversion conference in Austin, Texas. So it is a real, it's like a double bonus for me. I get to

go to the conference and be here.

Excellent.

Well, yes.

Thank you for carving out the time for the attitude community.

We very much appreciate it.

And many of our community members who registered for this event in advance did submit some questions.

And we'll use those to get us started today.

And then we'll also be asking live questions as well.

So I wanted to start with a couple of questions

around a very hot topic of productivity,

getting things done, and recovering from the fallout,

the physical stress and emotional stress of adhering to sort of neurotypical ideals.

So the first question along these lines, I can never gauge how much time a thing will take.

As I look for a new job, I'm nervous that this time estimation deficit will prevent me from meeting deadlines.

And all of that worry feeds into my imposter syndrome.

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