ADHD Roadmap: ADHD Comedy - The 5 ADHD Archetypes

Alright, folks, are you ready to have a little bit of fun with me? Well, we made it through all of those videos, and I really hope you got value in all the substance and detail that were there in the 15 videos that came before this. However, let's go ahead and I want to play a little fun game with you. So, over time, I noticed a lot of patterns in my clients, friends, and even myself. Folks with ADHD and some certain personality types that form. Because not all ADHD is the same, but I notice certain patterns and certain, let's say, types of people.

So I create what I call the ADHD archetypes, right? So you can think of it like the Myers Briggs personality test or the houses of Hogwarts, right? So this is not scientific by any means, but I'm just having a little fun with some of the patterns that I've noticed. So in this video, I'm going to break down my four archetypes, or personality types of folks with ADHD. So let's do it. The first personality is everyone's favorite, and that is the puppy dog. Now, I call them the puppy dog because they usually have a lot of energy, right?

These folks are often diagnosed in childhood because they were quite hyperactive, and that hyperactivity may lead to impulsivity in adulthood. Or they may still just have a lot of energy. They always need a task to do. It's like a puppy. If you don't give them a task, they may tear up the house, right? So these folks may benefit from having a fidget in their hand or having something to focus their attention while having to do a task that's maybe more menial. Now, these folks are highly extroverted.

They need to be around people. They thrive on that energy. They're super sociable. They're the life of the party. They're the center of every friend group. So it's important to have some puppy dogs around. They're a lot of fun. They're very funny. So these folks, often on the other side of things, can get a little bit depressed. Now, they're usually pretty happy and upbeat, but sometimes when they're not feeling like they're validated or being reinforced, or they're not able to be as social as they want to be, or they feel like there's something going on in their connections or some drama or something, they could really get discouraged and depressed.

So if you're a puppy dog, it's important to know your strengths. These folks really do well in job positions that are social, whether it's a real estate agent, Hr. But anything having to do with people. So I think this one's one of the most common. So go find yourself a puppy dog in your life and be sure to give them a lot of praise and they'll be quite happy, and they'll do so much for you. They're very selfless people as well. Next, we have what I call the mad creators. Now, these folks are often something like a scientist or even an eccentric type artist.

These folks are the masters of hyper focus. They're happy if you put them in a room alone, give them the tools they need to create something, and they will come up with something beautiful or ingenious. These folks are highly, highly intelligent or extremely creative or brilliant in some sort of way. Like I mentioned, they may be a little bit more introverted, right? They may be up in their own head quite a bit. And sometimes they don't give themselves enough time to take their head, pop it above water, and get some air, and be here on this planet with the rest of us, right?

These are the folks that may not brush their hair or they're going to wear different colored socks because they're more up in their head and less focused about the external world. Now, these folks often have similar traits of another neurodevelopmental disorder, which is autism. Now, we know those two things are comorbid. So often who, people who have this more personality type tend to be on the spectrum. Not all of them, though. So it's really important for those who are mad creators to invest more in their connections, being social and being sure they're taking care of the day to day, like brushing their teeth and just taking care of the daily things in their life, managing their finances, because outside of what they're extremely brilliant at, they avoid like the plague.

Like other folks with ADHD, all the things that they find boring or trivial or things they think are pointless or stupid, and that could sometimes get them in trouble. But if you're a boss or you need someone on your team, be sure to find yourself a creator, because they're extremely valuable. The next archetype. We have the free spirit. Now, these folks are particularly special. They love novelty newness. They're huge dopamine chasers. And for them, their biggest avoidance is the conventional life.

Being in a corporate role, being in a bustling city environment, is boring for them. These folks are very connected to adventure, to nature. They may be highly spiritual. For females, it may be the, you know, the travel blogger or the person who likes to go on yoga retreats and for a guy, it may be more like the outdoorsy a bear Grylls type who just want to go in the wilderness, and they'd be happy if you just leave them there for months and be able to live off the land or take pictures. The free spirit are great people to have in your life because they always remind you about what is more important, right?

To get out of the bustle the day to day and connect more with yourself and connect more with nature. Now, on the opposite end, what these folks struggle with is doing anything conventional. And unfortunately, if you live in the real world, you have to do some things of convention similar to the eccentric or the creators. When you need to pay your bills or when you need to sit down in one place or even have a residence, that could be very depressing, especially if they avoid that for a long period of time and their pile and their problems pile up, or they find themselves in debt, and it could also have a negative impact on their relationships, because these folks are extremely attractive.

People love to be around them. They take people on adventures. The problem is they don't stay still in one place. So that could affect their relationships, because unless they could find someone who's just like them, willing to travel and go on these adventures, they may be wandering place to place, and they're kind of hard to nail down and have that sense of stability. So again, if you need to find someone to connect you to nature and remember what's important, be sure to find yourself an adventurous person like the free spirit.

Now, we're going to save one of the most interesting ones for last, and that is the eccentric entrepreneur. Now, these folks are kind of similar to the free spirit. However, their focus is maybe less on nature, but it's more about creating ideas and solving problems. So the eccentric entrepreneur is also all about novelty. What is new and what is against the grain, what is against convention? If it is something like managing the day to day operations of a company or even one that they started or being in a corporate world that does not work for them, the nine to five, they'll work 80 hours to avoid working a nine to five.

So these folks, their minds are buzzing. They're often highly intelligent as well. They're extremely attractive and their personalities very magnetic. And that helps them sell their ideas, maybe to raise money or get other people excited about the ideas they have to create something new and potentially change the world. Now, the bad side of having this type of personality is, again, you may not want to manage the day to day. It's one thing to get your idea off the ground, however, you need to manage it and do some of that nitty gritty work.

So these folks benefit and really need others around them who are more conventional in that way, maybe a little more conservative minded, who are able to implement their ideas and kind of pick up after their messes. Because these folks kind of blitzkrieg their way through life. They bulldoze, and that is good because they're able to go far. However, they could leave a mess in their wake, and if that's not taken care of, that could get them in trouble because they may cut corners, they may skip out on details, and that could often lead to them being super rich in their strengths or wind up in jail because they cut too many corners and they didn't think about it right.

They got too excited, too hyper focused on one thing. So again, if you need someone on your team who's coming up with new ideas, creative solutions, be sure to find yourself an eccentric entrepreneur. All right, folks, I hope you thought that was fun. Those are my four ADHD archetypes. So if you have ADHD and you watch this, I want you to choose one of those archetypes. Or maybe you're a blend of those archetypes and comment, say which one you are and what your experience is. And get ready for our last video of the series.