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Singer MI Abaga And His Wife Reveals Their Struggle With ADH Disorder
Eniola Mafe, a well-known Nigerian singer, and veteran rapper MI Abaga have spoken candidly about their battles with ADHD.
One of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental diseases, ADHD is characterized by issues with attention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. It frequently starts while children are young and can last into adulthood.
The pair revealed that one way they deal with ADHD is by cultivating the habit of talking and listening during a recent interview on the Aproko Doctor podcast.
Eniola acknowledged that she had ADHD, which had impacted her academic career, since she was 19 years old.
“It’s not something you can just cut out. It’s actually who you are. It’s how you think, accept the world, rejection, and everything.
“It was about realizing that all the things that didn’t seem to make sense about me… it affected me in school. My inability to gather thoughts.” She said.
MI Abaga also shared his experience, saying, “For me, my childhood was just that I loved music. It was tough for me to read in class, probably because I wasn’t paying attention. If I was really interested in something like art, I would excel really well, while my schoolwork was suffering for it.”
He went on to say that he didn’t connect the dots until he was in college and realized that ADHD was a part of his journey in life.
“By the time I went to college, I figured out that the ADHD thing was me and I still couldn’t connect the two dots together. I think the first time that I really got a sense of how much it can control a person was in our relationship, when Eni would explain.
“And I googled it and it was almost like a weight off my shoulder. I can look back at some of those things differently now that it was always going to be part of my journey in life.
“To me, it’s both the thing that has given me so much, because it is where I go to like create, and at the same time, it’s the part of me that I want to understand the most,” he said.
