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This is an amazing thread. Carrie hit on something very crucial, that we can struggle to make sense of what we are feeling. On the most basic level, it can mean that we don’t realize we are hungry… until we are starving. Then the signal finally gets through. Like it has to reach a tipping point and then it’s a flood. I was interviewing Dr. Anthony Rostain last week for some new videos we’re making for this site and he said that ADHD/ADD kids can wet themselves not because of trauma or something physical, but simply that they don’t sense they need to pee.
Consider that your brain is bombarded by about 2,000,000 bits of information a second from your various senses, but you conscious mind can only handle less than 50 bits of information a second. So your brain has to do a lot of filtering out. Right now it’s probably filtering out what your legs feel like as you’re reading this. Or the noise of the furnace. Or the buzz from the florescent lights.
ADHD brains don’t quite filter that same way. So things like how we feel, even whether we are hungry, get lost in the tornado of incoming data. No wonder ADHD people talk so fast. We’re trying to get it all out before we forget!
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