Rapper, MI Abaga and wife share insight on coping with ADH Disorder

MI Abaga, a veteran Nigerian rapper, and his wife, Eniola Mafe, have opened up about their struggles with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a neurodevelopmental illness that affects both children and adults.

It is characterized by symptoms such as inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, which can impair daily functioning as well as academic or occupational performance.

Individuals with ADHD may struggle to pay attention, organize tasks, remember details, follow instructions, and stay concentrated on a task for an extended amount of time. They may also suffer with impulse control, which can lead to impulsive behavior like interrupting others or indulging in harmful activities.

The pair said in a recent interview on the Aproko Doctor podcast that one of the ways they deal with ADHD is by developing the habit of communicating and comprehending.

Eniola revealed in the interview that she had been diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 19 and that it had hampered her academic career.

“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 recounted.

MI Abaga also recounted his experience with ADHD, 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.”

“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.”