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Living with ADHD means you’ve got a race car brain with bicycle brakes. That’s the analogy we’ve used with our patients in our decades of clinical practice — to much success. Not only does it comprehensively sum up the realities of ADHD, but it does so in a shame-free way that restores a positive self-image. Managing ADHD symptoms, we explain, is all about strengthening those brakes – and there are a host of ways to do that.
But thriving with ADHD starts with something more elemental: rethinking our core concept of the condition. On our end, we’ve gone as far as to rename attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD). We think a more accurate name is variable attention stimulus trait, or VAST, which places focus not on a “deficit” of attention, but an abundance of it.