something i noticed that i appreciated while listening to the backlog of mbmbam is that, in the recent margaritasville episode, travis was the one to step forward and talk to the celebs despite of the fact that all three of them were collectively having anxiety attacks about doing just that. and then in one of the (way) older episodes, they get a question from a listener asking about how to stay calm when meeting celebrities and justin and griff mention that they always have travis be the one to talk to people for them. i thought it was cute that that’s been how they function for so long, and i wondered why it was travis that always stepped up even though he has anxiety as well.
and then it hit me that he’s adhd, and a common symptom of adhd is hyperempathy. personally, i know that whenever i’m with someone who’s too anxious to do something, my hyperempathy kicks in and i’m able to ignore my own anxiety about Doing The Thing so that my friend doesn’t have to do it bc i know how it feels and i don’t want them to have to deal with it. and it seems like travis does the exact same thing for his two brothers.
