One of the biggest hits of this past year’s Winnipeg Fringe Festival was Oversharer, a funny and heartfelt reflection shared on a later-in-life ADHD diagnosis. That diagnosis helped comedian Kristen Einarson to understand the world around her, and she shared that understanding and all the misunderstandings that occurred along the way to the delight of festival audiences. Fast forward to October, where Einarson is remounting the production for one night only at the Park Theatre. Audiences who missed their chance to see this show during the Fringe Festival run can hear about her experiences of therapist appointment and TikTok videos as she tried to come to grips with her neurodiversity. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Park Theatre (@parktheatre) “I was actually very resistant to the idea,” she recalled in an interview about the show during the Fringe Festival back in July. “I always knew I was anxious or something. I always knew I was just kind of an intense person. Something weird was going on for sure.” The impacts of Einarson’s missed diagnosis are all on the table for Oversharer, from being fired from jobs to time management struggles to being a sensitive person. “If you don’t know what’s going on, it’s really easy to just be really down on yourself and to feel like you can’t get anything right,” Einarson said. “You’re just flaky and kind of a mess, and then it gets morphed into this manic pixie dream girl – you start overcompensating with that kind of thing, like ‘I’m just quirky. I just have a cool personality.’ But there’s actually nothing original about my personality, it’s just a diagnosis.” That diagnosis has also helped Einarson understand her penchant for comedy. “One of the superpowers that comes with ADHD is pattern recognition,” she says, “and that’s really what a lot of stand comedy is. It’s being able to see a pattern a maybe draw a funny comparison, maybe think about the world in a different way.” .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Those funny comparisons are easier for Einarson to appreciate now that she has the correct diagnosis and understanding of the lens through which she processes the world. “With time comes a layer of empathy,” she elaborates, “but, you know, when we’re improvising these stories very much in the moment, these things feel like the end of the world. A lot of stuff for me when I was in high school definitely felt like the end of the world. I just wish I could go back in time and hug my younger self and say, ‘First of all, it’s going to be OK, and second of all, you don’t make friends by just loudly talking at someone for two hours and not leaving them alone.’” Oversharer takes the stage at the Park Theatre in south Osborne at 8 p.m. on October 22. The show is an 18+ event. Tickets and more information are available at the theatre’s website.