Laura Key
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54 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Laura Key’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do you want a different one, by the way? I'm kind of liking this one.
Listeners of the show know that the very first episode I shared my own ADHD story and the impetus for my discovery and I had ADHD was also a breakup and a very, very dramatic breakup that left me kind of reeling. And like, I got to figure out what's going on with me. And it was a slow path to discovery. And I'm still I'm like one eighth of the way through it.
Is it too personal if I ask you? Have you been in a serious relationship since then?
In one of the episodes of Climbing the Walls, you share audio from, it was your sister's wedding. You were the maid of honor and there was like some self-deprecating humor about your relationship experience. I think you referred to yourself as like erratic or I actually wrote it down. See, I have a note card, like refusing to grow up.
Exactly. Talking with you is making me realize that there may be a lot more people listening with RSD, rejection sensitivity dysphoria, but they're not experiencing it because they're anticipating it and they're just avoiding it.
So rejection sensitivity as a journalist. Let's talk more about that.
Well, now that climbing the walls is out, you're here. You didn't hide. Congratulations. It's not out yet. When this goes up, it will have gone out.
All right. So tell ADHD AHA listeners what is climbing the walls about.
When we started talking about this, I was like, oh, this is going to be about the pandemic and the rise of TikTok. That's all this is going to be about. And it goes so much deeper.
As a member of the team here at Understood and as an editor and getting to listen as this has been created, it's just I'm learning so much about myself as a woman with ADHD as I'm listening to these episodes. And I'm curious, what have you learned about yourself through the creation of this show?
Yeah, I mean, your life surrounding the scenario, obviously, is extremely unique. But yeah, I understand. I mean, with ADHD, we speak to, I think we're past our 100th episode now. And it's just... Like, isn't this going to get repetitive? Isn't this going to get boring? But no, there's so many different ways that ADHD impacts people's lives. But there is that kind of that universality.
Yeah.
You talk to so many people. experts and obviously to women with ADHD throughout the course of this. It's a six episode series. What conversation was particularly resonant to you? I know it's hard to choose amongst
Mm hmm.
It's really intimate, the show. It's so impressive to me the way that you tackle these really heady kind of scientific ideas, but then the humanity that's brought in with like, but this is really... a huge deal for the women it impacts.
Was there any conversation with an expert or anything like a fact that you learned along the way that just kind of blew your mind, that you had no idea before you started the work on this show?
Yeah. I mean, just the ground that you cover in six episodes is so phenomenal, right? Because it's a show about the rise of ADHD diagnoses in women, right? And why that happened. But it's also a history of ADHD, which is really interesting in and of itself. You add this gendered layer on top of it. You have personal stories. And then it's really about what's next. What do we actually need?
If you could sum up, what do we need? What would you say?
Yeah.
And it's a great start. And we need like 10,000 more of these because how many years of catch up are we doing? Exactly. Right. So one of the things that I appreciate about this show is that you tackle it from every angle, every possible angle that, say, an ADHD hater might have. Like, is it even real? Is it actually different in men and women? Is it being overdiagnosed?
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