Rae Jacobson

And that experience of being among your people, people who just get it, that thing where you don't have to apologize all the time or explain why you want to do it tomorrow or why you're moving your leg or whatever it is. Yeah.

And that experience of being among your people, people who just get it, that thing where you don't have to apologize all the time or explain why you want to do it tomorrow or why you're moving your leg or whatever it is. Yeah.

Whatever. Whatever your neurodivergent thing that you do, that masking thing can just drop. Like, what did it feel like doing that from, like, a reporter's sense? Like, sitting down with people and being like, we are from the same place.

Whatever. Whatever your neurodivergent thing that you do, that masking thing can just drop. Like, what did it feel like doing that from, like, a reporter's sense? Like, sitting down with people and being like, we are from the same place.

Part of what I'm wondering is like when you say you see all these people with this comfortable shorthand and you got the chance as a woman with ADHD to be in a room full of people who were open about their ADHD and talking. And of course, you're in like the reporter's role. But like in those conversations with the people you spoke to for the show, did you ever have that moment of like, ah.

Part of what I'm wondering is like when you say you see all these people with this comfortable shorthand and you got the chance as a woman with ADHD to be in a room full of people who were open about their ADHD and talking. And of course, you're in like the reporter's role. But like in those conversations with the people you spoke to for the show, did you ever have that moment of like, ah.

Oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

I've spent a lot of my life working in media and reporting on mental health. And being in that space, I learned that it is a super rare opportunity to get to do what Danielle did, to spend months going deep on a topic as niche as women diagnosed with ADHD during the pandemic. So before I let her go, I needed to ask a couple of big questions.

I've spent a lot of my life working in media and reporting on mental health. And being in that space, I learned that it is a super rare opportunity to get to do what Danielle did, to spend months going deep on a topic as niche as women diagnosed with ADHD during the pandemic. So before I let her go, I needed to ask a couple of big questions.

Did you learn anything about your own ADHD or like about being a person with ADHD that you didn't know before you started the show? That's such a great question.

Did you learn anything about your own ADHD or like about being a person with ADHD that you didn't know before you started the show? That's such a great question.

Yeah. I feel like that's the thing about understanding ADHD. It's why it's worth knowing the stuff that we know about our brains, because then you can actually apply it. Like it has a function. My final question is just like, what do you hope that people take away from this? Like this is a really cool thing that you've put an enormous amount of work into.

Yeah. I feel like that's the thing about understanding ADHD. It's why it's worth knowing the stuff that we know about our brains, because then you can actually apply it. Like it has a function. My final question is just like, what do you hope that people take away from this? Like this is a really cool thing that you've put an enormous amount of work into.

If somebody comes to the podcast and they haven't heard Climbing the Walls, they're just coming in cold, like what do you hope people take away?

If somebody comes to the podcast and they haven't heard Climbing the Walls, they're just coming in cold, like what do you hope people take away?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love that. Danielle, thank you so much. This was awesome.

I love that. Danielle, thank you so much. This was awesome.