“How I Learned to Listen When My ADHD Brain Has Something to Say”
bad listener or worse, someone who doesn’t care. But I absolutely do care! I want to hear the rest of their story!As an extrovert, I fill the room and like to make people laugh, and two pints down I’m on a roll, ready to entertain.
But by the end of my show, it feels like people sometimes are tired of me.[Read This: “The Rules of Conversation Mystify My ADHD Brain.
But I’ll Keep Talking.”]There’s rarely a pay-off to this behavior. I’m not forming or solidifying deep friendships. Would you trust your deep secrets to or build a deep emotional connection with the guy telling outlandish (but most true) stories at high volume in the center of the party?I actually find the quietest people most interesting because they just sit, listen, and learn from someone else (without interruption).
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