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One of the reasons I think my mom has ADHD is her emotional reactions to... everything. Especially temper and anxiety. It's very familiar to me. One of the ways she expresses this is getting very irritated and mad while driving. Lately though between helping out through volunteering to help her community through her new church and also I know her husband/my stepdad is encouraging her to try calming down and giving other people grace/presuming good, she's clearly been putting in effort to do that more while she's driving and out in general. And it's showing! I know it's difficult and a process, but she's made some progress and I made sure to comment positively on it because it was noticeable to me and I wanted her to know I recognise the effort she's been putting in. I've been feeling conflicted about her and my stepdad spending so much time at church because my abusive ex-parents did that and they got worse, but for my retired parents it's been good and I'm glad to see it is so.