What is your biggest challenge with ADHD?

Your child gets evaluated. You sit down with the questionnaire. Somewhere around question six, you realize you are answering it about yourself.

Dr. Aaron Dodini has heard that story for years. He is a licensed clinical psychologist behind Axon ADHD, and he has spent the last fifteen years helping people get clear answers about ADHD, especially adults. He also missed it in his own daughter, a valedictorian, after more than a decade of doing ADHD evaluations.

In this episode:

  • The quick win: "Yes, we can." Why answers, clarity, and help are within reach.
  • How Dr. Dodini went from marriage and family therapy to clinical psychology to ADHD evaluations, and why adults became his focus.
  • The story of missing ADHD in his own daughter, and what masking looks like from a parent's side.
  • Why procrastination and distractibility can be impulsivity, which he defines as sensitivity and reactivity to stimuli, and where rejection sensitivity fits.
  • Why the traditional evaluation route can stretch to six months and cost $3,500 to $6,000 in the D.C. area, and why he says those tests are built to find learning disabilities, not ADHD.
  • What an evaluation with objective data looks like: a 20 minute QbCheck test, a clinical interview, and questionnaires about how ADHD affects daily life.

Dr. Dodini's message to ADHD moms: the hard part is recognizing you might need an evaluation. The process itself does not have to be hard.

This episode is for education, not medical advice.

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Resources Mentioned:

Find Dr. Dodini and get evaluated at axonadhd.com.

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