How My ADHD saved the Holidays Beyond ADHD: A Physician’s Perspective

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: Hello, hello. Welcome to Beyond D H adhd, A Physician's Perspective. I am Dr. Diana Mercado Marmarosh. I'm a family medicine physician practicing in rural Texas. I used to be hindered by my A D H D, but I now see it as a gift that helps me show up as the person I was always meant to be, both in my work and in my personal.
In the past two years, I've come to realize that I'm learning some of my beliefs and some of my habits were just as important as learning the new set of skills. Well, hello. Hello. How are we doing? Then? A couple of weeks since I joined and did a podcast. I would say that I'm. Blame it on the weather, kind of like Southwest did, uh, this holiday week, right?
But life happens and I am just gonna roll with it. But today what I wanna talk to you guys about is how my. Adhd and not just mine really, but I think my family's h adhd, uh, help salvage the holidays and how we have, we've been having an amazing time because of our h adhd. Probably most people would feel, um, very, very, uh, overwhelmed with the change and the fact that, you know, The fact that, uh, anything that we went through this week, so for example, um, my week started off, uh, our vacation started off on December the 22nd, and we left Austin and we decided this year there's 12 of us.
And we, this is something we've decided beforehand that we, we, we decided that instead of giving each other gifts, like physical things that we would try to give each other experiences, uh, to decrease clutter, to improve bonding time to, uh, improve connectiveness. And so in doing so of. During Thanksgiving, , we were, uh, planning our vacation for Christmas.
So just six weeks away, right? Uh, we decided we wanted to have, well, we, we've been talking about it, that we wanted to have, uh, snowy, uh, White Christmas. And so , typical a d h, adhd, uh, and of course some wine involved. Uh, we were looking, uh, places to go find this quote unquote magical snow, right? So when we were planning for it, we were planning, we started off looking into New York because my husband's parents are in New York, and then we considered a Denver, and then we considered, um, salt Lake City.
And so due to the fact that, um, maybe it would be too much to ring 12 relatives to visit my in-laws, uh, we decided, uh, and it was kind of like short. Notice type of thing. Uh, and also due to cost as well, we were looking at the price of the flights and looking at the price and the availability to go from point A to point B because we wanted to rent, uh, 12 passenger van or, or a van that would have the.
Capacity. Uh, we ended up using the, we, we outlined what we thought was important. We knew that we wanted snow. Uh, we knew that we wanted, um, a way to transport to get to the places we weren't so, Skiing on, like, uh, necessarily skiing. Uh, but we wanted to at least be able to go tub, be, uh, or to goat sledding and to have the ability to make a snowman.
So those were like our big things. And of course we wanted to be together. We wanted to find a hotel or an Airbnb, um, that would accommodate all 12 of us. So with that in mind, we ended up, uh, using Southwest and, uh, we were looking at flights and stuff like that. And of course, we all know that we, once we decide on something, we can like hyper focus and we can make stuff happen, right?
So what I'm saying is that our ADHD brain, while it doesn't sometimes. To go off the course of what we had decided to do. It is very good at adopting to whatever is currently in front of us and being able to, um, Adjust and pivot, right. So when we started our vacation, uh, on December 22nd, uh, we went from Austin and we decided that, uh, we were going to Salt Lake because in Salt Lake City we could stay, um, , you know, uh, a few in little towns kind of like Midway or um, park City, and, uh, we could get the snow that we wanted and we could experience the city and just.
You know, we didn't come with a full agenda