“If you don’t know, Evelyn, the main character, has undiagnosed ADHD…”
One Medium user wrote, “it’s obvious that this movie, when you watch it now, was made by someone with ADHD.”
Sally Turbitt writes that she saw the movie twice. “Both times I was glued to the cinema seat, crying and filled with hilarious emotions – seeing my ADHD brain and aspects of my life – experiences and feelings of failure, self-awareness and family, playing out in glorious, riotous colors and sounds on screen,” Sally wrote.
Sally has combined ADHD inattention and hyperactivity. “Since being diagnosed, my understanding of myself has grown tremendously, but so have the huge, overwhelming emotions I’ve had to live with my entire life. And this movie has helped me.” crystallized those feelings and knowledge into something I could articulate,” she wrote.