Shaparak Khorsandi talks to Holly Newson about her memoir Scatter Brain which tells the story of her life with ADHD. From this interview, expect extreme honesty, experiences of ADHD, and what it was like to put it all down in a book.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:20 What were the signs of ADHD for Shaparak Khorsandi?
1:53 Masking ADHD at school
2:17 The problem of not knowing you have ADHD
2:55 Is ADHD good for stand-up comedy?
4:11 Risk-taking and ADHD
4:42 Was laughter ever a masking mechanism?
5:21 What were Shaparak's coping mechanisms before she knew about her ADHD?
7:29 Self-esteem and not knowing you're entitled to a second chance
9:09 Parenting with ADHD and making mistakes
11:56 Shaparak on writing Scatter Brain
12:15 Narrating the Scatter Brain audiobook
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