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ADHD Rejection Sensitivity: Why Rejection Can Feel So Personal | Alex Partridge
ADHD rejection sensitivity can make one comment, one text, or one change in someone’s tone feel like proof that everything is falling apart. In this episode of The Dr. Brighten Show, Alex Partridge joins me to unpack rejection sensitivity, masking, identity, self-trust, and the hidden emotional cost of ADHD; view the full show notes at https://drbrighten.com/podcasts/adhd-rejection-sensitivity/ 📚 My new book, ADHD and Women, explores the relationship between ADHD, hormones, the nervous system, nutrition, and the experiences women are so often never taught to connect. 🎁 Preorder the book and see the current limited...
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Stop fidgeting, stop biting your nails, you're so weird. Children with ADHD are exposed to 20,000 extra micro rejections in their formative years. They get old to change who they are and sit down, be normal. All of these little things add up to create an adult with ADHD who suffers from something called rejection sensitivity dysphoria. Alex Partridge is the founder of Unilad and LadBible.
And a leading voice on ADHD and neurodiversity. He now hosts the award-winning ADHD chatter podcast and is a Sunday Times bestselling author. Now he's taking us inside the world of ADHD and what it could mean for how we think, work, and live. Rejection sensitivity dysphoria, if you don't understand it, is debilitating, dangerous,
and I think it's the most exhausting and underspoken about aspect of ADHD. What was the myth that you really realized, like maybe letting rule your life? I think the biggest myth in the ADHD space is that... If someone has spent their entire life believing they're just too sensitive,
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