Dawn-Marie Farmer and Laura Mears-Reynolds moved to the same street, at the same time, at the same age, and had the same undiagnosed disability.
After discovering the impact that undiagnosed ADHD had on their lives, and the high numbers of mis/undiagnosed ADHD women who've endured the same struggle, they created a podcast to raise awareness and break the stigma around neurodivergence.
ADHD As Females now has 320,000 downloads in 172 countries in just 9 months, and is regularly in the top 30 UK podcasts in Society and Culture, alongside the likes of Louis Theroux and Russell Brand.
They have interviewed a range of women, including well-known figures like Clementine Ford, Louise Williams (who has also been on Mind Vox) and even me, your Mind Vox host!
With an ever-increasing audience on their pod and across social media, they’ve come onto this pod to talk about their ADHD experiences, the highs and lows of being an important voice in the ADHD community, and why it’s so important to open up the conversation around neurodivergence for women in this current climate.
This episode explores:
-Laura and Dawn’s journey’s to meeting each other and discovering they were undiagnosed ADHD.
-The similar and completely different ADHD traits they each experience.
-How each trait can present differently from person to person.
-The varying traumas people can experience from undiagnosed neurodivergence.
-Unhealthy coping mechanisms that can be created from a life undiagnosed.
-Laura and Dawn’s incredibly different journeys to reaching diagnosis.
-Why diagnosis is important, regardless of age.
-Their titration experiences.
-Why they created the ADHD As Females Podcast.
-What it’s like to have a pod that’s become incredibly popular, and what they’ve learnt along the way.
-The highs and lows of running a popular podcast with ADHD, and how they cope with the demands of it.
*Trigger warning*
Contains conversation about Emotional Dysregulation, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, Dyscalculia, ADHD, Autism, Depression, Suicidal thoughts, Binge Eating Disorder, Auditory Processing Disorder, Addiction and Trauma responses.
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Photo credit: @sambril
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