Danielle Elliott

dating, like period, I guess you could say. Yeah. And then with parenting, it was still a thing that I wanted to do. And it was like, oh, great. Now you're telling me that's going to be really hard too. Like, I just don't want to hear any of it.

Could have done. Yeah.

Could have done. Yeah.

Or taking your shoes off in the middle of a room or whatever.

Or taking your shoes off in the middle of a room or whatever.

I felt sort of invasive, to be honest, at first, because I was like, everyone is here. Because it's a camp for families, and it's really designed. It's like the kids have ADHD and the parents are there to learn about ADHD. But it turns out that in the last few years, all of the parents who are coming to the camp for the first time have recently found out that they have ADHD also.

I felt sort of invasive, to be honest, at first, because I was like, everyone is here. Because it's a camp for families, and it's really designed. It's like the kids have ADHD and the parents are there to learn about ADHD. But it turns out that in the last few years, all of the parents who are coming to the camp for the first time have recently found out that they have ADHD also.

And for a lot of them, I think it was just really... I don't think they would describe their typical lives, like day-to-day lives, as unsafe. But I think that I kept hearing over and over from women, I've never felt so safe and so free to be myself as I do knowing that I'm in a room full of people who understand what's going on.

And for a lot of them, I think it was just really... I don't think they would describe their typical lives, like day-to-day lives, as unsafe. But I think that I kept hearing over and over from women, I've never felt so safe and so free to be myself as I do knowing that I'm in a room full of people who understand what's going on.

And it's funny, Sari actually describes the same thing from a conference in the 90s. that it was the first time she was in a room full of adults who all knew that the others had ADHD. And so they could fully be themselves. They didn't have to try to pretend to be quote unquote normal.

And it's funny, Sari actually describes the same thing from a conference in the 90s. that it was the first time she was in a room full of adults who all knew that the others had ADHD. And so they could fully be themselves. They didn't have to try to pretend to be quote unquote normal.

And for me at the camp, there were like the first two days, my interviews with women were sort of hesitant because I didn't want to be interrupting this experience that they were having. But then as we talked more and more and they started to realize I also had it, it just became this like, It was like I was one of them, but also not. But it just, the camp was really amazing.

And for me at the camp, there were like the first two days, my interviews with women were sort of hesitant because I didn't want to be interrupting this experience that they were having. But then as we talked more and more and they started to realize I also had it, it just became this like, It was like I was one of them, but also not. But it just, the camp was really amazing.

And I think most of the credit for that is just the, it's just a product of being in the same room as other people, like being surrounded by people who you know get it.

And I think most of the credit for that is just the, it's just a product of being in the same room as other people, like being surrounded by people who you know get it.

I'd say most of the women I spoke to at camp, but especially there's one woman who I speak to who'd only been diagnosed a couple of weeks before she came to camp.

I'd say most of the women I spoke to at camp, but especially there's one woman who I speak to who'd only been diagnosed a couple of weeks before she came to camp.

And she was meant to be at camp with her husband and two children to learn ways. She spoke very eloquently, and she said that they wanted to learn how to have more harmony in their home with two children with ADHD. And then... A couple of weeks before camp, she was diagnosed. And I related to truly every word that came out of her mouth. It was just like, oh. And she was talking about how she...

And she was meant to be at camp with her husband and two children to learn ways. She spoke very eloquently, and she said that they wanted to learn how to have more harmony in their home with two children with ADHD. And then... A couple of weeks before camp, she was diagnosed. And I related to truly every word that came out of her mouth. It was just like, oh. And she was talking about how she...

felt like she was already a better mother. Cause she could now look at her kids and be like, she's like, I've always looked at my kids and thought, Oh no, you do things the way I do them. Like, I don't know what to do, but she never, that it was only once she was diagnosed that she's like, Oh, that's why I see that in my kids.