Danielle Elliott

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

There's an episode where I'm with a group of women who have ADHD for almost an entire week. And I don't think I realized how universal a lot of the things are that a lot of women with ADHD experience. And that ended up becoming episode five. And in that episode, just the conversations that I had, the conversations that never made it into the show.

There's an episode where I'm with a group of women who have ADHD for almost an entire week. And I don't think I realized how universal a lot of the things are that a lot of women with ADHD experience. And that ended up becoming episode five. And in that episode, just the conversations that I had, the conversations that never made it into the show.

It was like I was just hearing people express my inner thoughts for an entire week. And it was really interesting to realize, like, we all grew up in different circumstances, but also the same in a way. Hearing them describe their childhood experiences, it all just, I think that's the biggest thing I've learned is that I'm like, this is maybe a strange thing to say, but I'm not all that unique.

It was like I was just hearing people express my inner thoughts for an entire week. And it was really interesting to realize, like, we all grew up in different circumstances, but also the same in a way. Hearing them describe their childhood experiences, it all just, I think that's the biggest thing I've learned is that I'm like, this is maybe a strange thing to say, but I'm not all that unique.

Like, so many of the things that I thought were slightly different about me are actually not once you start talking to other women with ADHD.

Like, so many of the things that I thought were slightly different about me are actually not once you start talking to other women with ADHD.

Yeah, there's something relatable in the episodes that I've heard. Like it's I can relate to all of the stories that I've heard on the podcast, too. You know, yeah. Universality is a good way to put it.

Yeah, there's something relatable in the episodes that I've heard. Like it's I can relate to all of the stories that I've heard on the podcast, too. You know, yeah. Universality is a good way to put it.

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Yeah. No, I think it was the conversation with there's a woman in that episode in episode five. I would say all of the conversations in that one, but especially two conversations in that one. One was with a woman who was only she was coming to this camp for her children. And two weeks before camp, she was diagnosed with ADHD herself and it came completely out of nowhere.

Yeah. No, I think it was the conversation with there's a woman in that episode in episode five. I would say all of the conversations in that one, but especially two conversations in that one. One was with a woman who was only she was coming to this camp for her children. And two weeks before camp, she was diagnosed with ADHD herself and it came completely out of nowhere.

And that conversation just it reminded me of I think sometimes you can think you haven't really learned anything about your ADHD or like progressed at all with managing your ADHD. And speaking to someone who was right at the beginning of having been diagnosed reminded me of how much I have learned and how much I think I have started managing it better. Yeah.

And that conversation just it reminded me of I think sometimes you can think you haven't really learned anything about your ADHD or like progressed at all with managing your ADHD. And speaking to someone who was right at the beginning of having been diagnosed reminded me of how much I have learned and how much I think I have started managing it better. Yeah.

And then there was a conversation with a woman who was in her 70s. She puts perspective on the diagnosis and on the rise in diagnosis that it just really helped me see it in a like, yeah, you live in the moment you live in and you only get to enjoy the amount of progress that has been made up to that moment.

And then there was a conversation with a woman who was in her 70s. She puts perspective on the diagnosis and on the rise in diagnosis that it just really helped me see it in a like, yeah, you live in the moment you live in and you only get to enjoy the amount of progress that has been made up to that moment.

When I read Sari's first book, it blew my mind. So a lot of what Sari and I talk about in episode two, when I first sort of encountered the information, it blew my mind. And that's what led me to call Sari for the interview. And she is. Can you explain? Yeah. Sari Solden is a woman who wrote a book in the mid 90s called Women with Attention Deficit Disorder.

When I read Sari's first book, it blew my mind. So a lot of what Sari and I talk about in episode two, when I first sort of encountered the information, it blew my mind. And that's what led me to call Sari for the interview. And she is. Can you explain? Yeah. Sari Solden is a woman who wrote a book in the mid 90s called Women with Attention Deficit Disorder.

And she describes it just to a T, kind of like the feelings and the emotional experience of having ADHD, particularly for women. And in the 90s, that's... And in the 90s, that was groundbreaking. It was actually kind of rejected by a lot of the powers that be. So I think her findings were the most surprising to me.