Laura Key
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54 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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This is ADHD AHA, a podcast where people share the moment when it finally clicked that they have ADHD. My name is Laura Key. I head up our editorial team here at understood.org. And as someone who's had my own ADHD AHA moment, I'll be your host. I am here today in person with documentarian and science journalist Danielle Elliott. Danielle, your work has been featured on
HBO, NBC, The New York Times, ESPN. I know there's a long list. I don't have my computer in front of me, so I can't go on and on and on. But so excited to have you here today. Danielle is also the host and the journalist behind Understood's brand new podcast called Climbing the Walls. We're very excited. We're going to talk about that. Welcome, Danielle. Thanks for being in person with me today.
It's like a tray of hors d'oeuvres that we have here on our fancy new ADHD aha set. All right, Danielle. So on climbing the walls, you talk a little bit about yourself. Today on ADHD AHA, we're going to talk about you. How does that make you feel?
That's all I do on the show. I overshare. So you're in good company.
Let's talk about your diagnosis. When were you diagnosed with ADHD?
What was happening? Why did you seek out an evaluation?
Yeah. And now here you are. Here I am. Tell me about the relationship and what was going on.
I was feeling weird about how I acted. You telling that story, I hear you that it was like it was a big deal. And this visceral reaction has led you down this path of exploration. I've been in some breakups. That doesn't sound that bad to me.
Yeah. So... Not an unusually flared up, dramatic breakup scenario, but for you in the context of your life.
So you probably, you tell me, you felt like you went from zero to 100.
But in reality, maybe it was 99 to 100 and you had been kind of holding it in.
I mean, I've kind of been a little bit cheeky in my responses to you, but I do I hear you like it's really painful. I've just some of the situations that I've been in have been I look back and I do one of these like, oh, I don't even want to think about it because I'm so ashamed of the way that I it's mortifying. I'm like, I was so childish. I was so petulant. What was I doing with my body?
Why did I raise my voice like that? Why did I?
Yeah.
Well, didn't have the experience with those situations because you'd been bouncing around. Yeah.
Bouncing around and sounds like you travel a lot. And then I know from the show that you talked about that that was the first serious relationship you'd had or.
So tell me about the feeling that you get when you are on the go. Talk to me about this need to travel. It's something that you've mentioned a few times on Climbing the Walls. Tell me what that feels like and does it work out the way that you hope it will work out?
Do you think you would have discovered that you had ADHD sooner had you not been able to travel for your career or in your life?
Yeah. I think that's where I'm going with that statement. I'm just thinking about like if you can't scratch that itch of novelty through travel, would you have tried something else or would it have bubbled over and like it would have... It's such a good question.
Hold on.
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