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Trevor Noah

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“Because the burden of your relationship is now lessened by having this community as opposed to people who merge with one person and then all their hopes, aspirations, dreams, fears, frustrations are just poured on them, you reach a breaking point. But you can actually have, it's not replacing it, by the way. You have a better romantic relationship when you maintain and you have a strong friendship. So I encourage it. Do it.”
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“Community in negativity now, we all hate together. We all, you know, hate tweet together and we're all like angry at women together and we all hate that music artists together and we all, yeah, let's hate together. But it's not sustainable because it gobbles us up. It's like it just chews us up and spits us out. But if you can find the things that you love doing for you and then you find the people who love doing it as well and it makes you feel good, the thing on the other side is it's magic. In fact, they've shown studies, I know you love studies, studies multiple studies have shown, and I think a meta-analysis as well has shown that people who have a strong group of friends.”
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“I'm learning this. You'll be shocked at how much lies on the other side of it. In a weird You'll be shocked at what finding that belonging can do for you. Know it comes with risk the same way it does in a romantic relationship. But man, it's easily the most rewarding. If there's like a, if I could evangelize one thing to people out there, it would be find your people, find your place. And unfortunately, I think that's what's happening these days. People are finding that place in negativity. People are finding.”
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“Oh, wow. Thank you. Man, and don't spend as much time alone. You're not like, you know, I know you've always been there and I know it can feel in a weird way it can feel like the comfortable place, but like it doesn't need to be.”
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“No, no, I mean this for real. I always say, if you want to see a professional podcast, go to Diary of a CEO. If you want to come explore my mind, come listen to what now. People want to explore your mind, fever.”
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“Authentic is a complicated word Thank you so much from the guy who made easily one of the best ever. Thank you very much.”
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“Went audio. He raced apartheid. I wouldn't be like, I would keep apartheid, Stephen. Because if it wasn't for apartheid, I wouldn't be here with you today. No, no, no, no, no. I would erase it. And maybe we'd be dealing with something else. But if I could, I would press that button because I, yeah, I don't think we need to celebrate it. I think we need to work on it and, you know, we need to strive to heal ourselves. But I don't think your tribulations are what make you. You survived. And I'm proud of you for surviving. But that doesn't mean that you needed to go through what you had to go through.”
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“Yeah, and so if I could replace it, I go, no, I forget that. I don't go like everything happens to you or doesn't. I go back to what I said my friend, phrase my friend taught me, who do you choose to be? I would say forget the eraser test. I would say to you, there can never be an eraser test. Why don't we replace it with a pencil test? A pen test, a marker test, whatever device you want to use. And you go, if you could press this button and decide what story you write on the other side of the thing that happened to you, would you now write that story? And what story would you write? I think that's more important because the eraser thing makes people now feel like they have to disown a part of themselves, which most people will not want to do, but then it makes you feel like you have to like claim this thing as being part of yourself. No, I would press that button. I would erase my mother being shot. I would erase me having ADHD. I would erase the tough times that my country.”
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“What can I learn from it? How can I grow from it? But I am not a fan of anybody saying that they will keep it because it's made them who they are. Just because you've survived a storm doesn't mean that you should want to keep that storm. And so, and that's why I say it's a philosophical argument. It really is. But I don't like how we've done that to people because in some way, I feel like it makes people think that they now have to be grateful for a terrible thing that has happened to them or a terrible thing that they've experienced or people around them have experienced because they've come out more resilient on the other side of it.”
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“And so now you get this kid who was abused by their parents or someone in their family and you're like, it happened to you for a reason. It made you the person you are today. You know, or somebody who suffered a horrible trauma or like a car accident, a terrorist attack, whatever it is, hey, it happened to you for a reason. You're going to, you know, look at you. You will be stronger. Look at you today. You wouldn't be this person. You know what people forget to talk about? is the fact that yeah you could have been a different version of you you could have been happier you could have been less wounded you could have carried less burden you could have been less hurtful because of that and i think we should never take that for granted i think we should encourage people to find the best and we should we should always say to ourselves hey what can i get from this situation”
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“You know, I think we should never take for granted how many people are broken by a bad thing. And I think we've done something in society. And maybe it's because we want to valorize it, or maybe it's because we want to make people feel like they're not victims or we want to make it seem like there was some purpose or meaning. Maybe it's tied to religion. I think we at times have sort of valorized this idea. It happened to you for a reason.”
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“Yes, I would. Yeah, I would. And this is a fundamental philosophical argument that I have with people. This is purely like philosophy and it's the way I see the world and I think the way some people see the world. I understand. That many of the times, or I understand that oftentimes. People come out of a bad experience. With a new learning or something that has improved them in many ways, but I think we should never take for granted how many times that doesn't happen.”
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“Perfect the way we were before something happened to us, but rather it is that we get to wear our cracks with a new type of pride and a new type of beauty. And that's maybe how I think of overcoming now is I think of myself like a ceramic that has been cracked many times and because of the love in my life and because of great therapists and because of good people and because I've worked and I've managed to find ways to put gold bondage in those cracks to somehow find a little more beauty in myself than I had before the thing that happened to me. And so yeah, that's every time I see those, it actually makes me emotional when I look at each one and I think about the story sort of of the person that each vessel contains.”
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“It's this beautiful Japanese tradition. I'm sure you could find the name and put it out there, but it's if you could help me with it. It's so to me, it was one of the most beautiful concepts and a different way to think about being quote unquote fixed or overcoming or, you know. Is the arts of Kinsugi in Japan. Learning about this blew my mind because it was such a, it was a paradox shifting way for me to think about overcoming or being better. And it wasn't the idea that we are.”
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“All a work in progress. You know, one of my favorite things I learned recently, and I guess it speaks to this, is I should remember the name. I always remember stories and not like the names of things or the dates, but there's a beautiful art form that I learned about when I was in Japan recently. And basically it's a practice of repairing pottery and ceramics that have broken. And what happens is you break a plate or you break a vase or something. And what they do is they put it back together. These artisans who do it. But they don't just glue it back together. They glue it back together and they sort of adorn it with like a golden bondage. And what you get is an object that is somehow more beautiful than before it was broken.”
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“I don't know, to be honest with you. I really don't know because it's strange because I don't know what that means or doesn't mean. Doesn't mean you don't think of it anymore? Does it mean it doesn't affect you anymore? I don't know what the answer to that question is. You know, maybe overcoming something means that it now no longer negatively influences you. I don't know. I don't think that we have like one fixed idea of overcoming something that isn't tangible. You know, it's not like scaling a mountain. The honest answer I would give is, yeah, I just give myself grace and I try and work at it. I try and understand that”
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“Funny enough, I think we talked about it. I would safely say the lowest points of my life was my mother being shot. So it's crazy that we did speak about it. How did I overcome it? I don't think I would be so... Arrogance as to say that I have overcome it, I think I'm constantly working to overcome it.”
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“You're very kind Like, yeah, those story times, it's books that I loved, you know, the boy, the little prince, you know, there's so many books like that that I think inspired me to think about rediscovering our childlike Curiosity ability to think beyond ourselves, our imagination, like almost like reremembering yourself. Before many of the hurts. And then going from there.”
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“Yeah, I think it definitely does. I think it definitely does. Like, it's a weird thing to say, but as I've become more comfortable with the notion that I could be not in a relationship forever, like, you know, as people say by yourself, but I don't think that because of friends and community. But as I've gotten more comfortable with that, I think I've become more able to be in a relationship. Because I think more and more I've thought of a relationship as something I can bring value to as opposed to the thing that's supposed to just do everything for me. And I think before I was only looking at it that way without realizing it.”
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“If I know that it's going to be terrible, then I'll probably have a great time. But if I think that it's going to be rewarding and wonderful, I'm going to hate a lot of the moments in it.”
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“Is that I will give my child two things that are important, and that is number one, being chosen, and number two being considered. I think a lot of people have children. But they may not choose them, and they don't consider them. And that's where you'll hear parents saying things like, you know, I brought you into this world. It's like, yeah, exactly. So you should consider me a little bit more. Many parents treat children as if the children owe them for introducing them into existence. When I think it's the other way around, so yeah, I think to myself, I like the idea of it and I do like the puzzle of it. But just like I learned from the Daily Show and every other major undertaking.”
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“I go back and forth on it. Because on the one hand, sometimes I think you see like the zooming, the lens. Sometimes I think about the planets and the world and like, oh, you bringing kids, you're going to bring kids. No, I'm like, yeah, but the world's probably been terrible for everyone who's been in it at every single given time. So is that a reason to not have a child? And then I ask myself the other question. I'm like, okay, but what do I think I'm bringing to this child? And then I thought to myself, wow, do I want to have a kid with ADHD? How hard was that for them? And what is it going to be like? And then I'm like, but maybe it'll be great because you know they'll have it and maybe they won't. And maybe like, so I.”
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“That we then want to go. We had great parents, or we had terrible parents. Sometimes you had a parent who was great at some things and terrible at other things. You know, and if they did love you, they were doing their best. Sometimes they didn't, and I think that's tough for some people to acknowledge. But if they loved you, they were doing their best and they tried their best and they failed at other things. And that's fine. But, you know, my goal and my dream is to, as my mom always said to me and my brothers, like be better than the last.”
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“Well, she would challenge me and say my goal is to improve on her legacy. My mom's definitely remarkable. But as she would say, it's by the grace of God. It's not by her hand alone. I think one of the things that I've loved most about my relationship with my mom. Is that I've come to learn. Part of what makes her so exceptional is the fact that she's a flawed human being. She's not perfect. There are some wounds that she's inflicted on me that I need to now deal with in my life because she's been my parent, you know. And this is sometimes the paradox that we struggle with in our lives as people, I think we've been so indoctrinated into this binary way of thinking.”
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“We spend like it's like the nothing moments, you know, no agenda, no like, there's no thing we have to do or not do. I sort of slip into her life in the garden and I just stand around while she does her gardening and then listen, talk, share. But really, if that was the call now, it would just be thank you, thank you. I love you so much. Thank you very much. I love you. I love you. Thank you so much.”
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“I think it would just be, I love you, I love you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I love you, I love you. Thank you so much. I love you. And genuinely, that's pretty much it because. I'm really lucky that I've said and I continue to try to say most of what I should to my mom. And there's always new things that come up and then I try to say them and we have beautiful conversations. You know, like these days we take like drives, like drive her to go and buy a new chicken for her. She's got like a little chicken. It's not even a farm. I don't even know what to call it. It's like a little squad of chickens. But I'll just take her for a drive and then we just talk about life. And we just talk and we share and we laugh and we...”
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“I definitely think from him I learned how important it is to maintain your friendships. He's lived a long life. He's older than my mom. Even as he's gone into his old age, still has friends, he still has community, he still has like, he showed me how wonderful that thing is, you know, because friendship, I feel like friendship has in many ways been given the short end of the stick in the world of relationships. People understand the value of parents and children, and then people understand romantic relationships. They go, oh, that's the most, of course, your spouse. But your friendships are one of the few relationships that don't necessarily rely on like a transaction in a way. It's like purely choice.”
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“I think I did, but not lessons that were taught lessons that were witnessed. I think most of the lessons that we learn from our parents aren't taught, to be honest.”
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“I think definitely, but I think we don't even think of it like that. And I didn't even think of it like that. Does that make sense? Because I assumed the love, because I'd seen it my whole life from him. So I assumed the love, but I didn't, I think the thing that's adjacent to that love is the choosing. Know sometimes you assume that parents love you, but you're not sure that they choose you, maybe. And so that was interesting for me. And then seeing parts of myself that I didn't even know came from another person. It's fascinating, frustrating, and liberating at the same time.”
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“I reunited with him because my mother gave me a key piece of advice which was valuable. And she said to me, don't take for granted the answers that a person can hold of you that you may not even know you needed for yourself. And I think parents have that with us, especially if parents are willing to engage with you. If these are human beings that have fundamentally shaped you. You are half of them. They are half of you. It's a weird thing that you can take for granted. And For me, the gift of reconnecting with my father was reconnecting with him as a man, a young man, albeit a man. I scared isn't the right word. I was. I was unsure, but I wasn't scared, you know, it's like. It's that feeling of the unknown. What's going to happen? What are we like?”
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“What you sort of should be doing in a responsible way. And that, I promise you now, in all those moments where I felt like. It's hopeless were the moments where I'd come back even more. I think to myself, huh, maybe I should try aiming to get to that place. And therein in a strange way lies the meaning for me.”
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“Sometimes just having the idea of just like, you know what I mean, take all your clothes over and run through the streets screaming. And what would you say and who would you say it to? And why would you say, you'd be shocked at how that gives you an inkling of what you're not doing for yourself. Some people might be like, I'll tell my dad to go screw himself. I would say to you, oh, this is probably you realizing that you don't set boundaries with your dad and you don't communicate well. Maybe you don't tell your dad how he hurt your feelings. Man, I'll go to work and I'll, yeah, maybe this is not the job for you, you know. I'll party all night. Maybe you're not taking enough time to have fun. You'll be shocked at how sometimes you're not a tantrum, but it's just like you're screwed choice.”
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“And it's made me realize that at times not everyone, for me and I think some people would probably feel this. Sometimes what's happened is that our lives. And I know I had this like you feel like You don't realize that you've stopped sort of like running, jumping, smiling, screaming. You've stopped being everything you can be. And you've just started existing as one version of yourself.”
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“Be like, you know, I'm gonna go on stage. I'm gonna tell that joke that I've been terrified to tell. I'm just gonna say it because I'm leaving anyway. Life is ending. It's all going away because it's all going to shit, right? It's going to say that. Go tell a joke. I'll be like, you know what I should also do? I should also throw a party. I mean, life's ending anyway. Just throw like one just like fuck off party that you just go into it. And I think of all the things and I mean this genuinely. I think of all the things that I would do with like giant middle fingers on my way out. And the smile that it brings to my face. I can't explain to you because every time it makes me realize that that's all I should be trying to do. Not in a way where I don't consider other people, but it's what I should be trying to do.”
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“You answer yes to all of those questions, you can continue to pontificate about the meaning of life and everything that you're going through. If you have not, just fulfill all of them and then see if you're still feeling the same on the other side and you'll be shocked how oftentimes you aren't. So the one thing that would happen to me, this is so ridiculous, I know. Sometimes when I'd be in that place, I'd feel a little hopeless. All right. And I would think to myself, I hate this sucks I don't know what I want to do with life anymore. Never like suicidal, but just like I just don't know if this life thing what is this And then I would go If it was going to end tomorrow, then what would I do like today then”
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“I didn't, I didn't. This is going to sound really weird to I have this strange thing that will happen to me sometimes in life where I feel like it's all meaningless and it's nothing and it's whatever. It's very, very random. Oftentimes I've just learned sometimes it's fatigue. I've learned rules now for myself and for anyone out there, really, especially if you have ADH Before you go through anything or before you think about anything intently and intensely when you're struggling, ask yourself a few simple questions. Have you slept? Have you eaten well? Like, have you eaten good food? Have you moved your body And have you spent a little time breathing?”
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“What is taste? Feel it on your taste buds and like one of the tools they teach you with ADHD sometimes when it makes you go into anxiety or depression is to just notice things. Practice being present. Walk down the street and like look, like really look and say out loud what you're seeing. And at first it's very stupid. That is a red door. That is a green roof. That is a pigeon sitting on the gutter. That is a gutter. That is a gray car that is driven by. And you'll be shocked at how just doing that gets your brain out of that loop. And then something's going to catch your eye or something will spark. And by the end of that walk, you won't be in the mood that you were in when you started that walk.”
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“But in coping or in learning how to deal with it, I've learned just about that lens and I'll talk to myself. I go, there's me and there's the observer, like I'm the observer of my thoughts. I'm not the thoughts. And then I'll talk to myself. So I'll be like, man, you do this tomorrow and then the next day and then life is me. Then I go like, it is. It is meaningless unless you zoom in. And then if you zoom in a little bit more, all of a sudden, wow, it's almost like the most meaningful thing. Conversation with this person is the most meaningful conversation you will ever have in your life. This is it. This is everything that it is. This hug that you're getting from your friend is the most important thing you will ever experience. This meal that you're having, just taste these ingredients. What?”
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“And so, what happens then, unfortunately, is you can also start to see the patterns in life that can make life seem meaningless. Once I got my ADHD diagnosis and once I understood what was happening, I really did start to see it as a lens. And anytime I find myself in those moments now, because I don't take medication. I took medication like once or twice. I was like, it didn't help me in my comedy. I actually need to be erratic and unfocused when I'm doing comedy. And I'm lucky that I live a life where I don't have to be in an office at a time and do a thing in a certain way.”
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“Yeah, and then mine also like it depends on some people have it, some don't, but like pattern recognition people with ADHD generally can be very good with patent recognition.”
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“Man, this is an exact example This is something that would get stuck in my head. Because I didn't know with ADHD that I was hyper focusing on this thing. So in the same way that I could hyper focus on learning about, I don't know, a discipline, you know, industrial design or artificial intelligence, I would just, you know what I'm talking about with that. I'd get hyper focused, and then I'd learn everything about it, and I'd read every book and I'd talk to every person I could, and I would watch everything. And all of a sudden, you know, in like three months, you'd meet me and I'd go like, yep, I've read that book, I've read that book, I've read that book, and I'm obsessed with this thing. And then one day it just disappears. Now that's fine for like learning, let's say, but it would be terrible for...”
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“For me, it felt like life was meaningless, like the concept of it was meaningless. I was like, we're a blip. What are we doing here? All of this means nothing. All of this is pointless.”
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“I'm looking at people. Do you like, no, there's a cup? Oh, I didn't see it. And so what was happening in my brain was I would get stuck in a zoom and I would just loop. So sometimes it would be me going, huh, that was an interesting day at work. I got to work tomorrow and I got to work the next day. Then the next day? And then the next day. Then there's a weekend. But then I'm back at work. There's wait a minute. It's just weeks and weekends forever. It just keeps on going and then. And then one day you're 90, and then you're dead. And wait, why am I going to work tomorrow? What's the point of what is happening here? This makes absolutely no sense. And then I'll just sit there and I couldn't get that out of my head. I literally could not get that thought out of my head. And I would just sit there like, what is the point of this?”
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“That's going to be we can photoshop. Yeah. It's going to meme that. But anyway, I think of a lens, right? And what you're doing with a lens all the time when you're getting focused, when you're zooming, is you're trying to place your focus on the object that you're trying to place it on. If you zoom out too wide, you can't see the object. If you zoom in too much, you also can't see the object. You've got to find the right zoom so that you know, okay, we're now looking at a cup. If you zoom in too much, you just go like, I'm looking at silver. I'm looking at a color. You zoom out too much. You can't even see that we're in this room.”
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“What my brain was also doing in that paying attention thing was it was focusing on a recurring thought or a recurring idea that I couldn't let go of. And that's sometimes where the depression would kick in. That I would be perpetually stuck in a loop of either meaninglessness or what I like to call personally, it's like my zoom was stuck on my lens. I think the way you see life is literally like a lens. I shouldn't have done that with my hands in a video.”
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“So, I would either be hyper focused by something that I shouldn't, or I would have no focus for the thing that I should. So I could be having a conversation with you here. And let's say there was a car outside revving its engine. At some point, that's all I'd be able to think about, even though you're speaking to me. That's all I'd be able to think about is like, who's revving this engine? Who's driving this car? What is going on out there? What kind of car is that? Sounds like a V6. Is that a truck? What are they, huh? Something wrong? No, it's, and now you'd be talking, and then at the end of the sentence, I'll just hear the last three words you said, and then I'll try and like put it all together and act like I was paying attention.”
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“So I didn't understand it, but as I understand ADHD now, what fundamentally happened in my brain, and I guess it'll happen to some people as well, is I would have an inability to choose where to place my focus. One of the things.”
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“And then, like on TikTok, hey, how did you deal with your ADHD? It's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's, you know, it's good that we're talking about these things. But let's not be quick to all have it and have the same version of it and all think that all of our treatments are exactly the same, et cetera. But yeah, that's, so I think mine was... I think it's now three, four years ago.”
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“And it's like, no, you can be forgetful and not have ADHD. You can have a short attention span and not have ADHD. There can be many things and not have ADHD, right? But even when you have ADHD, you don't all have the same ADHD. Know some people are inattentive, some people are hyper active, some people have learned coping mechanisms, some people haven't. In women and men, it presents differently at times. So I think we must also be careful, you know, like now it's just become like”
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“And then I went through real assessment. Like, I mean, not like an online quiz, you know, the one where you sit down, multiple visits, you do different types of tests, multimodal tests, and you go through it all. And then I learned about my ADHD. And I think that's another thing I, like I'm a little worried about now in society, is just like when we talk about therapy and AI and everything, we flatten these words. And so what then starts to happen is now I meet people everywhere. Everyone's got like, I've got ADHD. I've got ADHD. I can't watch a movie for more than 10 minutes. I've got ADHD.”
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