Episode 28: Fire, Ready, Aim... ADHD in Women
You Don't Sound Autistic (YDSA)
English - February 20, 2022 23:13 - 1 hour - 95 MBMental Health Health & Fitness Society & Culture Relationships autism adhd add neurodiversity anxiety depression dyslexia fight or flight response asd asperger's Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 27: High Anxiety and High Functioning Autism
Next Episode: Episode 29: Taking Smaller Bites of Big Goals
Multitasking should be called multi-firing especially when describing the neurological crossfires women find themselves dealing with every day. Still boxed in by gender roles, childbearing, child rearing and household management on top of working to afford today's climbing costs of living, women with ADHD are repeatedly missed and misdiagnosed due to improper evaluation of women's cycles, hormones and scripted coping mechanisms. Women with ADHD and Autism, as Blake describes from his own experience, is like walking with one short leg and one long leg and always feeling off balance and caught between two often opposite socio-emotional responses.