Dusty Chipura

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Hacking Your ADHD · ADHD and Pregnancy with Dusty Chipura (Rebroadcast) · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

In Canada we have a really big problem with indigenous mothers being criminalized at birth.

And there's actually a practice that we're trying to stop, but like it's still happening where like

Even before these women leave the hospital with their babies, sometimes they get their babies taken away by child protective services because they're they're they're sort of flagged as unfit parents for some reason or another.

And a lot of that is agreed with what we have like a a colonial a history of colonial violence in Canada of of indigenous mothers being separated from their babies.

Okay.

So now let's say you've got an

There's like thumping coming from somewhere, sorry.

So let's say now that you got an indigenous mother with ADHD and she's got a baby and you've got a social worker or a nurse coming to do a home care visit and that new mother's apartment is like super messy because she's got ADHD, right?

So if we have any kind of a worker walking into a situation where the home is messy, the person's missing their appointments, they're not filling out paperwork, well, if that person is also now like black or brown.

There's an increased likelihood that that care provider might say, Oh, well, maybe the child's not safe, or like attribute it to something, you know.

more more sort of s more serious, right?

And so, you know, luckily for me, I'm a white person.

I have privilege.

My home was a total disaster when my baby came home, but nobody in the hospital was looking at me sideways just because I didn't

fill out some paperwork or I missed an appointment or my house is messy, but they could, right?

And I think that w statistics show and and like history has shown us that they are looking that way at black and brown women and black and brown birthers.

And we see that in the in a system of child removals in Canada from indigenous women.

So like what chance does an indigenous woman with ADHD who's not getting any support, right?

She's already got all these strikes against her.

She's already got

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