I laughed so much during this interview and I know you will too.

While training to become an occupational therapist, April Garcia did an entire school project on ADHD, building a strategy for kids who couldn't get ready for school on time no matter how hard they tried. Nine years later, she found out she had ADHD herself, and almost nobody around her was surprised...except for April herself.

April is the author of The Room to Be Brave, a memoir that uses the metaphor of rooms in a house to walk through the parts of her past that shaped her.

In this conversation, we talk about what happens when achievement becomes the way you hide the mess underneath, why doctors so often dismiss ADHD in women who look like they have it together on paper, and how she got sober and got diagnosed within ten days of each other.

We also get int ...