Danielle Elliott

And I'd even tried to say like, I felt like that was putting a burden on her.

And she just said, I'm coming in.

Like, do not try to fight me on this.

And, um, it was so helpful.

And then I'd have, I lean a lot on my parents and, um,

I know a lot of the women that I speak to who are also raising children on their own, they lean on their parents or they have friends or sisters or just other people in their lives who have sort of committed to saying like, call us the aunties.

My friends all call themselves my daughter's aunties because they're like, you can call us anytime.

And I think it's sort of just...

Trying not to take them for granted, but actually taking them up on all of the offers, I think is something that I've heard from other women in the same situation as me.

You sort of grapple with it because you're like, you just don't want to take advantage.

Everyone's really busy.

Yeah.

And you remember what it was like to not have kids and you were busy.

So I try really hard to not suddenly feel like, yeah, exactly.

Like everyone's available to me.

Hey, it's Danielle. When I was reporting and writing Climbing the Walls, there was a lot happening. ADHD was constantly in the news, for better or worse. I was navigating my own diagnosis, and I was digging into the long, complicated history of ADHD in women. With so much to unpack, I joined another podcast called Hyperfocus with Rae Jacobson.

Hey, it's Danielle. When I was reporting and writing Climbing the Walls, there was a lot happening. ADHD was constantly in the news, for better or worse. I was navigating my own diagnosis, and I was digging into the long, complicated history of ADHD in women. With so much to unpack, I joined another podcast called Hyperfocus with Rae Jacobson.

It's a show that dives into the most fascinating parts of ADHD—mental health and learning—and In the episode you're about to hear, I talk about how climbing the walls came to be, what surprised me most during the reporting process, and more. If you enjoy it, be sure to follow Hyperfocus with Ray Jacobson wherever you get your podcasts, or just click the link in the show notes.

It's a show that dives into the most fascinating parts of ADHD—mental health and learning—and In the episode you're about to hear, I talk about how climbing the walls came to be, what surprised me most during the reporting process, and more. If you enjoy it, be sure to follow Hyperfocus with Ray Jacobson wherever you get your podcasts, or just click the link in the show notes.

I had started working on a book proposal about ADHD, but it was interesting because the response from a lot of editors was, we've already had so many proposals about ADHD in women, but the process of publishing a book takes a year to two years. So it's going to be behind the news cycle.