{"id":3371,"date":"2026-08-11T23:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:46:12","slug":"hilaria-baldwin-laughs-off-troll-opens-up-about-adhd-and-dyslexia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3371","title":{"rendered":"Hilaria Baldwin Laughs Off Troll, Opens Up About ADHD and Dyslexia"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\tHilaria Baldwin<\/a> is turning an internet troll\u2019s intended insult into a lighthearted moment of self-acceptance.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 42-year-old mother of seven posted an Instagram video<\/a> to share a funny mishap regarding a negative comment left on her page. Baldwin explained that a follower called her \u201cvacuous\u201d \u2014 a word her dyslexia caused her to initially misread as the compliment \u201cvivacious.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFinding humor in the mix-up, she joked in her caption that she needed a dictionary to figure out she was being insulted. \u201cPOV: you have to do a Google search before you can even be offended by the hate comment,\ud83d\udc80\u201d she wrote, adding: \u201cWhatever, my dyslexia and ADHD<\/a> read that as vivacious anyways.\ud83d\ude1c\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t<\/p>\n
\n

\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n
\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Depressed<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

<\/p>\n

\tRelated story
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tWhy Teens with ADHD Are At Higher Risk of Anxiety and Depression\t\t<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n

\t
\n<\/section>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time she\u2019s spoken out about her neurodivergence. In her memoir, Manual Not Included<\/em><\/a>, Baldwin shares how living with ADHD and dyslexia affects her self-confidence, memory, listening abilities, and speech.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have a brain that is one part English, one part Spanish, seven dollops of mom brain, a heavy pour of distraction when I get stuck or go off on tangents and forget what I am saying while I am saying it,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also attributes her fluctuating accent, and the highly publicized 2020 scandal<\/a> surrounding it (including a viral 2015 clip<\/a> of her forgetting the English word for cucumber on The Today Show<\/em>), to her ADHD and \u201cprocessing differences.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the fallout, she used her memoir as a protective shield \u2014 a space to thoughtfully voice her experiences without the immediate pressure of going \u201clive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCan you be honest right now, reading this: Have you ever forgotten a word?\u201d Baldwin wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, she says the backlash caused her to feel \u201clost\u201d and \u201cconfused.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019d sit on my bathroom floor, nursing my baby Edu at 3 a.m., and speak to my brother in Spain, and I\u2019d cry to him, nauseous about it all,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHe\u2019d try to lighten things up by saying, \u2018Can we just stop for a second and talk about how nonsensical this is? You\u2019re speaking to me in Spain, where I\u2019ve lived for most of my life, in Spanish, about the validity of our connection to Spain. No one is really offended \u2014 it\u2019s COVID, and they are home alone and bored, and there is so much misinformation.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHer husband, Alec Baldwin, also stepped in to offer support. Having faced his own public controversies<\/a>, the actor used his personal experiences to provide genuine empathy and comfort.<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimately, getting proper treatment for ADHD allowed her to manage her distractions and separate the two languages. She also decided to stop attempting to fix every flaw that internet critics pointed out, realizing she was never broken to begin with.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI tried to improve myself in all the ways the internet trolls had told me I was broken,\u201d she wrote in the book. \u201cAnd then I got to the point where I realized: This is not helping me. I am mixed-up, but I am not bad or broken. And then Hilaria returned.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am relieved that now there\u2019s less of a stigma around differences in learning and processing,\u201d she continued. \u201cThis has given me the freedom to shed some of the shame I felt for so long. I\u2019m now aware that my brain just works differently and I can really succeed in the right environments and tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n