Sarah Templeton > Quotes

“EXCESSIVE TALKING and TALKING OVER PEOPLE This one makes us very unpopular! While Inattentive adhd people are often quiet and withdrawn, your Combineds and Hyperactives rarely shut up! Our brains are going full speed and we can’t get the info out of our mouths quick enough. adhd people speak over others and interrupt primarily because if they don’t say their thought immediately, it’ll be forgotten. Our short-term memory is so poor, we can’t hold a thought long enough for you to finish speaking.”
― Sarah Templeton, How Not to Murder your ADHD Kid: Instead learn how to be your child's own ADHD coach!

“LABELS IN CLOTHES Ask the next person you meet to show you the back of their jumper. If the label’s been snipped, or torn off in anger, odds are that’s an adhd person who cannot”
― Sarah Templeton, How Not to Murder your ADHD Kid: Instead learn how to be your child's own ADHD coach!