Wetin this thing be
BrainBuzz Africa na ADHD awareness and education project. E start for Instagram and this site na im house: the same material, with space to be properly useful.
The promise short: understand your brain, find your next step. Everything here dey built to do three things for order — help you recognise difficulty, understand am without shame, and comot with one practical action.
Na who dey write this thing
Na Jordan Tanko be my name. I be Nigerian, I dey live for Dallas, Texas, and na me start BrainBuzz Africa.
Dem diagnose me with ADHD when I don turn adult. I go find explanation for why I dey always start thing and then lose am, I see the research, I recognise myself inside am, and after that one clinician assess me and confirm am. Wetin stay for my mind after na how long I take waka without that information — and how plenty people for where I come from go waka their whole life without am, because the word wey dem dey give instead na stubborn, lazy, potential wey waste.
Na that one this site dey for.
Wetin dey behind am
Experience wey I live, no be clinical training. I get ADHD. I no be doctor, I no be psychologist, I no be therapist, and nothing here na personal medical advice.
No clinician don review this site. That one na gap, no be credential, and e suppose dey this page instead of make e hide. Wetin dey there instead na say every clinical claim tie to published source wey you fit check yourself — NICE, CDC, NIMH, the World Federation of ADHD consensus statement — wey all dey list for the sources page.
Na me dey write and check everything here. Where the Naija Pidgin still need first-language review, we go talk am instead of to assume.
BrainBuzz Africa na independent project. Everything on am free. E no dey sell anything, e no dey carry advert, and e no get commercial sponsor.
Who e be for
Anybody wey attention no dey behave the way dem tell am say e suppose behave. The example dey lean Nigerian, because na there this thing start and because other places no dey serve those experience well — the "sharp but lazy" pikin, the house where word no dey for this thing, the adult wey still dey carry name wey dem give am when e be nine years. You no need be Nigerian, or African, or diagnosed, before you fit use any of am.
How we dey write am
Every factual claim get link to im source. The sources page list all of dem: clinical guideline from NICE, public-health material from CDC and NIMH, the World Federation of ADHD consensus statement, and specific meta-analyses and studies. Where the evidence no complete, the page go talk am instead of to round am up.
We dey write for English and Naija Pidgin. The two version carry the same meaning, the same uncertainty join — hedge for English go remain hedge for Pidgin. We write the Pidgin follow phrasebook wey we document, so that spelling and voice go stay consistent.
No authority wey we invent. We no dey publish testimonial wey we no get, and we no dey quote statistics wey we no fit cite.
Wetin this thing no go ever do
- To diagnose you, or to tell you how likely diagnosis be. Na only doctor wey qualify fit assess that one.
- To recommend medicine or dose.
- To suggest say ADHD explain every difficulty wey you get.
- To ask you make you sign up before we give you something useful.
- To send anything wey you type inside tool come meet us or meet anybody.
Credit and correction
If anything here wrong, old, or dem translate am badly, e matter and we prefer make we know. Email brainbuzzafrica@gmail.com, or use the Instagram account — any one wey easy for you.