Scott Robinson
Drowning in Dopamine
Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, reported to the Wall Street Journal that we are facing a new and dangerous form of...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20212 min read
Star Trek: The Next Reunion
Star Trek had played huge in my ADHD youth, as detailed above. My first ADHD tribe, the guys at Franklin County High, had all been Trek...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
The Foreshadow
Lindy. She was brainy and beautiful and blonde and thoughtful and introspective and funny and principled and unlike any woman I’d ever...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
Fanboys, Fangirls, Brainiacs, and Nerds
The new school at which I arrived in the fall of 1976 – Franklin County High in Frankfort, Kentucky – was a completely different...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
On the Picket Line
In October of 1977, I got my first real job. Taking a cue from school friends I bowled with on Saturday mornings, I became a bag boy at...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20212 min read
Doppelganger
While all of this is going on, through the late Sixties and early Seventies, another kid exactly the same age as me is having exactly the...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20217 min read
Northern Kentucky Genes
ANY PERSONAL STORY about living with Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD – necessarily begins in the genes. This is because...
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Scott Robinson
May 30, 20202 min read
The Hunter Child
Thom Hartmann, author of The Edison Gene, argues that Attention Deficit Disorder is no disorder at all, but a gift – in his words, “the...
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Scott Robinson
May 30, 20205 min read
Metaphors We Live By
Nothing connects one idea to another like a good metaphor. In fact, metaphor – what Douglas Hofstadter has called analogical thinking –...
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Scott Robinson
May 30, 20204 min read
"I honestly don't even remember the argument!"
It was a Sunday afternoon in 2007. She and I were sitting on the couch, watching a movie on television, having just eaten a snacky lunch...
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Scott Robinson
May 30, 20203 min read
Dysphoria
"I feel rejection far more intensely than most people.” The last time I lost a relationship to ADD issues, I reflected long and hard...
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Scott Robinson
May 30, 20204 min read
Hyperfocus, baby!
"I may go dark for long periods of time...” I have a superpower. You have a superpower. Most ADD adults have this same superpower. It’s...
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Scott Robinson
May 30, 20203 min read
"Sometimes I will zone out on you..."
I’ve had more than one relationship knocked off-kilter by moments of inattention in the midst of important communication. I believe most...
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Scott Robinson
May 30, 20204 min read
"I've spent my life in hiding..."
There’s much to cover in the pages ahead, and it all hangs together around some common truths. So it’s best to put the biggest of those...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read
"I might suddenly say something highly inappropriate!"
This one is big. It can happen anytime, anywhere, in any context. Our grasshopper minds are listening to others and racing at the same...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
The ADD Adult's Sex Life
"We can have an amazing sex life!” Let’s consider a very positive, encouraging fact about adult ADD: its various features can sometimes...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
Embracing ADD
"Despite everything, I don’t regret my ADD – I love it!” There are lots of pitfalls, obstructions, and challenges summarized in the...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
The Adventurous ADD Adult
My last long-term relationship was amazing. I’m a bookworm, as so many ADD adults are. I live for books, knowledge, new ideas. I have...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
We All Need a Whisperer
We can’t do it alone. And that’s what many ADD adults do – they try to tough it out, they try to handle all the burning bowling pins of...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20201 min read
The Organic Architect
The two major domains of an ADD adult’s existence are the same two that every other adult inhabits: daily existence and relationships....
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