Executive Dysfunction and Early ADHD in Preschoolers

Why does time blindness show up so early in life?

Welcome to another episode in our Research Recap series, co-hosted with William Curb from Hacking Your ADHD.

In this episode, Skye and Will unpack a study of preschoolers in Hong Kong, showing how time perception, working memory, and delay aversion already affect early academic skills.

What we cover:

• Why ADHD symptoms in preschoolers are hard to spot but still matter
• Why time perception was the newest and most revealing test
• What frustration tasks reveal about emotional regulation
• How working memory predicts later academic success
• How these findings could shape future ADHD support

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Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.

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