Danielle Elliott

I think that I'm so much more confident in work than I am in dating that the sensitivity doesn't get to me as much. I think it's also easier to not take it personally. I don't think there's a journalist in the world who hasn't heard, editors are swamped. Like, if they don't read your pitch, it has nothing to do with you or your pitch.

And there was also a couple pieces where, like, you can keep going back to an editor without seeming desperate in the way that there's so many tropes about women being desperate that, like, in dating, you're not going to, like, keep trying again with the same person. With an editor, you can try a thousand times and it might be what gets through. And I'm like, you don't know me for mad.

And there was also a couple pieces where, like, you can keep going back to an editor without seeming desperate in the way that there's so many tropes about women being desperate that, like, in dating, you're not going to, like, keep trying again with the same person. With an editor, you can try a thousand times and it might be what gets through. And I'm like, you don't know me for mad.

Like, this is fine. It doesn't show up for me in pitching. It shows up for me in publishing. Like, I... sort of just want to like hide under a rock for days after something comes out and I don't want to know what anyone thinks of it. I don't know what that is but I think it's like I think anytime I write anything about anyone I'm sure they're going to call me and like ream me out.

Like, this is fine. It doesn't show up for me in pitching. It shows up for me in publishing. Like, I... sort of just want to like hide under a rock for days after something comes out and I don't want to know what anyone thinks of it. I don't know what that is but I think it's like I think anytime I write anything about anyone I'm sure they're going to call me and like ream me out.

It's never happened before. It's never happened but I'm just so sure. So that's probably how it shows up but then it's already out in the world so I can't do anything about it.

It's never happened before. It's never happened but I'm just so sure. So that's probably how it shows up but then it's already out in the world so I can't do anything about it.

When this goes up, it will have gone out. Okay, sorry.

When this goes up, it will have gone out. Okay, sorry.

Climbing the Walls is my attempt to understand the rise in diagnosis among women, primarily during the pandemic, but it's been ongoing since the pandemic. I guess you could say it's my attempt to go beyond the headlines and the quick summaries of why so many women are being diagnosed with ADHD now. And the quick summary being... Oh, we just didn't know how it affects women.

Climbing the Walls is my attempt to understand the rise in diagnosis among women, primarily during the pandemic, but it's been ongoing since the pandemic. I guess you could say it's my attempt to go beyond the headlines and the quick summaries of why so many women are being diagnosed with ADHD now. And the quick summary being... Oh, we just didn't know how it affects women.

And that's just, you know, in episodes one and two, we debunk that right away. I think we've known for a long time. We just weren't necessarily willing to listen.

And that's just, you know, in episodes one and two, we debunk that right away. I think we've known for a long time. We just weren't necessarily willing to listen.

than that it's really really stunning work and I'm so excited for for everybody to listen to it what made you want to do this I really I think like whenever I do something that's sort of this deeper dive it's this question that I'm asking and I think one of the things I love about having this job is that I would just ask that question for another 10 years without actually digging into it yeah by having this as a job there's a reason it comes back to motivation yeah I guess totally

than that it's really really stunning work and I'm so excited for for everybody to listen to it what made you want to do this I really I think like whenever I do something that's sort of this deeper dive it's this question that I'm asking and I think one of the things I love about having this job is that I would just ask that question for another 10 years without actually digging into it yeah by having this as a job there's a reason it comes back to motivation yeah I guess totally

I remember in the first conversation with my therapist, I was rejecting the diagnosis at first because I was like, I don't want to have this. Everything I read is that women who have this struggle in relationships forever. And I don't want to struggle in relationships forever. This is the thing I wanted to fix about myself, I guess.

I remember in the first conversation with my therapist, I was rejecting the diagnosis at first because I was like, I don't want to have this. Everything I read is that women who have this struggle in relationships forever. And I don't want to struggle in relationships forever. This is the thing I wanted to fix about myself, I guess.

I just remember saying to her, almost not expressing anger towards her individually, but towards kind of the entire field. But I was like, how did we miss this? Not just in me. I had been seeing her for four years. And when I said I had it or when I asked her about it, she sat forward so fast. I was like, yes, yes, I do. But I can't say that to you. So take the self-assessment.

I just remember saying to her, almost not expressing anger towards her individually, but towards kind of the entire field. But I was like, how did we miss this? Not just in me. I had been seeing her for four years. And when I said I had it or when I asked her about it, she sat forward so fast. I was like, yes, yes, I do. But I can't say that to you. So take the self-assessment.

And I was like, how did we miss this? Not just in me, but in an entire generation of women. This is not right.