ADHD Aha!
ADHD Aha!
Understood.org, Laura Key
Rage quitting, constant tiny mistakes, and emotional regulation with ADHD (John Garden’s story)
25 minutes Posted Jul 7, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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What if the clue to an ADHD diagnosis was making a different tiny mistake every night on stage?
John Garden is a therapist and professional musician. He shares how years of strong emotional reactions, rage quitting, boredom with repetition, and feeling like a failure eventually led to an ADHD diagnosis.
The conversation explores emotional regulation, inattention to detail, perfectionism, and the hidden ways ADHD can show up. It also highlights how ADHD realizations are often not a single lightning-bolt moment. More often, they come from years of experiences that slowly add up until everything starts to make sense.