Tyler Hurst didn’t have any friends in college. His ADHD caused him to be impulsive, way over-stimulated, and affected his ability to have conversations with people. He needed his peers to speed up to catch up to him, and he was always anxious about stuttering or stammering because he could think and type faster than he could talk.

“I was always ahead of the conversation, behind it, or to the side, never in sync with whatever was going on,” Hurst explains. “I was having trouble relating to people in general because my mind works in a different way and people were just confused and annoyed by me.”

At the time, he was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder instead of ADHD. He was given Lithium and popular antidepressant drugs, like Prozac, but they didn’t do much for his symptoms. It wasn’t until he graduated college and went to a new psychiatrist that he learned he had an attention problem, not manic depression, and started taking Ritalin for ADHD.