One of the things I've noticed recently is that there appears to be a dynamic that ADHD adults quite often fall into. It’s the need to be busy. The need to be up to capacity when it comes to all the tasks that they have to manage. The need to do this thing and that thing and not forget.

Learning to understand how your own ADHD manifests itself is the key to developing appropriate ways in which to manage the challenges that it can bring. These challenges are often particularly relevant in the workplace. However ADHD workplace challenges can often be substantially reduced by making small but effective changes and embedding them until they become habits.

In October 2017 the BBC broadcast a Horizon programme presented by the comedian Rory Bremner about how he discovered that he has ADHD. At the end of the programme my wife turned to me. “That sounds a lot like you” she said. “I was thinking the same thing” I said.

‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder’ is very commonly misunderstood. The first misunderstanding is that the words appear to be descriptive. The second problem are the words themselves. The word deficit implies ‘less than’ and the word disorder implies ‘malfunction’. The ADHD brain isn’t broken, it is wired a little differently and it’s unique.