Being in a room full of women who had encountered similar issues to me was comforting and reassuring It was also empowering to see and hear how much they had achieved not in spite of, but perhaps because of their ADHD 🖋️ GeorgieR30
who specialises in personality profiling, it would require participants to undertake a profiling assessment called CliftonStrengths, used by 29 million people globally to look at how your strengths align with ADHD traits. Sitting in the beautiful grounds of Hampton Manor, once the home of former prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, I was hoping to get some answers about my own brain.
The CliftonStrengths assessment, designed by American psychologist Don Clifton in 1999, focuses on what you can do rather than what you can’t and measures your talents – your natural ways of thinking, feeling and behaving – into 34 CliftonStrengths themes. It’s a 30-minute question and answer test with 177 paired statements where you have to choose which one best describes you.
Miller first introduced Perry to the tool and said she was “blown away by the results”. “It both showed her the brilliance within her ADHD diagnosis, but also more importantly reminded her of who she is underneath, alongside her diagnosis,” says Miller. Perry realised that, including her, had internalised their hyperactivity so this could often manifest itself as anxiety.
In my case, these strengths included input, communication, empathy, positivity, achievement and being an “activator”. Being an “activator”, for example, means that once I have settled on a goal, I am eager to reach it and do everything I can to turn thought into action. I want to do things then and there, rather than simply talk about them.
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