Dr. Samantha Hiew

It's hard for it to go unnoticed because you will notice it, but maybe you won't necessarily think of it as ADHD or autistic traits.

For me, you know, definitely after I was diagnosed and

With ADHD and then figuring out I was autistic and starting medication and the autistic traits became more pronounced.

And I was on a dose that was probably too high for me because I would develop tics, you know, where I would speak really quickly and then blink a lot.

And then I would be tapping, you know, my fingers.

And that changed a little bit of my behavior.

And then that used to invite comments from other people.

But you weren't like that before ADHD.

Yeah, for sure.

Probably including myself, you know.

Yeah, that over-functioning, over-responsible for everyone, being everyone's, strangely, prefrontal cortex.

I joke about it with my daughter, you know, do you know how many people I've got to be frontal lobes for?

These two children who are neurodivergent.

which are obviously very forgivable because they're very young still.

But then even my ex-partner, I used to, you know, remind him every time, remember to do this, remember to do that.

But when I hit perimenopause, I just couldn't do it anymore.

And so much, I just, you know, leave it to him.

And he started to struggle.

He couldn't, you know, really like manage the household and everything whilst I was working and

Yeah, then I just decided not to do it anymore because biologically I just couldn't, you know, be everyone's everything.