Trevor Noah: You're Not Crazy, It's Just Different

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"‘Why do you suddenly zone out?’ For years, I couldn’t explain these moments—until my ADHD diagnosis revealed the shocking truth. Here’s how finally understanding transformed my relationships forever.

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00:00Because when you know, you now understand.

00:02You know what I'm saying?

00:03Yeah.

00:03It's you're not crazy.

00:05There's a big amount of relief to, no, you weren't imagining things.

00:09You're not crazy.

00:10And the people around you weren't imagining things.

00:12So I've now learned that I'll have to tell people in my life, you know,

00:17and I wish I knew this before in previous relationships.

00:20I will tell people now, you know, my siblings know, my family knows,

00:25my friends know, so they know that in a moment you may feel me switch

00:29in a way that doesn't seem, sometimes people tell me it seems like I've tuned out.

00:35But I haven't.

00:37To me, I'm fully present to me.

00:39But literally what's happened is my attention has shifted in a way that people can feel.

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