Francesca Rudkin

Actually, there's lots of different solutions to a problem.

No, no.

And it turns out they still get educated and off they go to university and life goes on.

Very quickly, though, parenting with ADHD and perimenopause,

Hello.

That's a collision.

So here we go.

So it's a running joke in our family that, you know, we're going through perimenopause.

The girls are going through either perimenopause or puberty in our house, which is, you know, as my doctor said, it's not kind of the way things were supposed to be organised.

You're supposed to have your kids nice and early.

So by the time you got to perimenopause, you could just look after yourself and your children were independent.

But we're not dealing with that now.

We've all still got our hands full of looking after and nurturing other people.

So how do you manage that if you're a mum, you've got ADHD, you're hitting perimenopause, quite possibly also looking after a neurodivergent child?

They do pick up on all this.

They understand that.

They can take on board some honesty from a parent like that.

No, so occasionally in our house when things happen, you know, excuses are thrown around and things are thrown around, we're like, do not throw the D card at me.

Because, of course, you know, my neurodivergent child is officially disabled, you know, and we're like, do not throw that card at me.

This is not the time to throw the card at me.