Danielle Elliott

Yeah, this was fun.

Hey everyone, Danielle here. As you know, I shared a lot about my personal journey with ADHD throughout climbing the walls, but there was so much I didn't get to include. So I recently joined another podcast called ADHD Aha. It's all about people's ADHD stories and the moment they realized, oh, this is ADHD. I shared my own aha moment and talked a bit about the making of climbing the walls too.

Hey everyone, Danielle here. As you know, I shared a lot about my personal journey with ADHD throughout climbing the walls, but there was so much I didn't get to include. So I recently joined another podcast called ADHD Aha. It's all about people's ADHD stories and the moment they realized, oh, this is ADHD. I shared my own aha moment and talked a bit about the making of climbing the walls too.

I'm dropping that episode into the climbing the walls feed today. If you enjoy it, be sure to follow ADHD aha, wherever you get your podcasts or just click the link in the show notes.

I'm dropping that episode into the climbing the walls feed today. If you enjoy it, be sure to follow ADHD aha, wherever you get your podcasts or just click the link in the show notes.

Thank you. I'm really happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Can I offer you a fidget? I'm like, oh, you're looking at them like, can I grab one?

Thank you. I'm really happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Can I offer you a fidget? I'm like, oh, you're looking at them like, can I grab one?

Great. Yeah. No, I'm not convinced. The thing in my head right now is, yeah, how often I tend to overshare and how much I'm going to try not to do that.

Great. Yeah. No, I'm not convinced. The thing in my head right now is, yeah, how often I tend to overshare and how much I'm going to try not to do that.

Yeah. I feel like climbing the walls is a giant overshare. So we'll just keep going.

Yeah. I feel like climbing the walls is a giant overshare. So we'll just keep going.

It was the end of February of 2022. Pandemic diagnosis. Yeah.

It was the end of February of 2022. Pandemic diagnosis. Yeah.

So I guess it was four or five months earlier. I had gone through a breakup and it was... The night of the breakup, I just had this really visceral reaction to a very normal conversation. And that surprised me. And I kept thinking about it for another, I guess, two months. I just felt like I had this very strong reaction. And I tried to figure out what it was.

So I guess it was four or five months earlier. I had gone through a breakup and it was... The night of the breakup, I just had this really visceral reaction to a very normal conversation. And that surprised me. And I kept thinking about it for another, I guess, two months. I just felt like I had this very strong reaction. And I tried to figure out what it was.

And I finally narrowed in on rejection. And then I started searching extreme reactions to rejection. And something popped up about rejection sensitivity and rejection sensitive dysphoria. As I read it, I was like, oh, this is actually a thing. This is not just one really strong reaction.

And I finally narrowed in on rejection. And then I started searching extreme reactions to rejection. And something popped up about rejection sensitivity and rejection sensitive dysphoria. As I read it, I was like, oh, this is actually a thing. This is not just one really strong reaction.

And in that article that I was reading, there was a line about rejection sensitivity often being a part of ADHD. It was sort of like, wait a minute, is this like, do I have ADHD? And then I started looking more into ADHD. I talked to my therapist and it just went from there.

And in that article that I was reading, there was a line about rejection sensitivity often being a part of ADHD. It was sort of like, wait a minute, is this like, do I have ADHD? And then I started looking more into ADHD. I talked to my therapist and it just went from there.

I would say for the last few months of the relationship, I think we were both, I think the nicest way to say it is like navigating our way out of it. Nice. I've been there. Yeah. That's probably the best way to put it. It was a conversation that I think we both knew was coming. I had been away on a work trip for a week. And during that week, I had been looking at other apartments.