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Shadow: That's cool? [He sounded surprised, but excited.]
Katie: Yeah, Mega Ultra Crazy ADHD. That's pretty cool.
Our conversation took many twists and turns, but I found opportunities to weave
Jeffrey9s story into our discussion and to see how Shadow might resonate with
certain aspects of Jeffrey9s experiences, while also taking the time to see the
differences that came with Shadow9s Mega Ultra Crazy ADHD.
Katie: So anyways, this therapist and Jeffrey, they find out that this ADHD is
making all these problems for JeffreyShadow: That's what my ADHD is doing! Dumb, stupid ADHD.
[Shadow’s face scrunched in anger as he muttered his condemnations.]
Katie: Yeah? You think it's causing problems? Well, do you want to know what
Jeffrey did next?
Shadow: What?
[He asked this casually, perhaps as his attention moved from the story to his legos.
But his interest was about to peak again.]
Katie: So, Jeffrey and this therapist, they worked together. And they figured out
all the things that Jeffrey's ADHD was doing to cause problems and it was
things with his parents, things at home, things at school& And they realized
that they could outsmart ADHD because theyShadow: They what?
[Shadow looked at me like I had just said something absolutely preposterous.]
Katie: They realized they could outsmart ADHD.
Shadow: That's cap.
The Boy Who Acted Out of Heart
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, May2025 Release, p. 29-62.
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