Hey everybody, in today's episode and in part two, we talk very frankly about ADHD and all that that means over the lifetime of a person who has it.

So if you're a parent with a kiddo who has ADHD, maybe consider listening by yourself first before you share it with them.

Just a thought. Hope you enjoy these episodes.

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry Jerome Rowland.

You put the three of us together and you got yourself a podcast called Stuff You Should Know.

That's right. And this is the sort of long simmering. We've had it on the back burner down to as low as it can simmer

for many, many months. The ADHD, what is now going to be a two-part episode because we've had,

I mean, that's not why we're splitting it up, but we have had a lot of requests for this over the years.

And it's, you know, it's big. It could certainly be more than two episodes.

And as much as I wanted to try and split this up into AD and HD for fun, it kind of doesn't

work that way. So we're just going to split it up into two parts. I think you're more thinking

of ACDC. Oh, okay. That's what I think it is.

Yeah, I got you.

No, Chuck.

Instead, today we're talking about ADHD, which stands for attention deficit hyperactivity

disorder.

Kind of wordy, but it really does get the point across because with ADHD, I'm sure

a lot of people are familiar

with it, especially the people who requested it, it's a, I'm not exactly sure exactly what

kind of disorder it is, whether it's a mental disorder, a personality disorder, an externalizing

disorder. There's actually a lot of debate about it. But essentially, it's where people have a lot

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