The speaker suggests that their own past struggles with reading and focus may have been related to an underlying functional vision problem.

“I've always struggled with uh I'm not dyslexic or anything like that, but I, you know, I've always struggled with long form reading. like my my mind would just wander and um like yeah if I'm if I'm not obsessively interested in a topic I just can't be bothered”

Functional vision problems often mimic and are misdiagnosed as ADHD, and these conditions should not be diagnosed without addressing vision first.

“So I I really would say that ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, they are incomplete diagnoses without addressing vision first.”