Sonia Gray

But people sometimes purposely choose not to get it right sometimes.

I think it's both.

Yeah, and I think it's quite unfortunate that there's this whole, oh, everyone has ADHD now.

I get it, but it's like anything, you know, a few decades ago it was left-handedness and everyone's left-handed now.

Well, they already were, you know.

So, yeah, it's that.

I think for women, adult women are the –

most underdiagnosed of all the demographics.

So there's some catching up to do.

And at that midlife point, there are many hormonal changes.

So we can talk about perimenopause.

And I think that is a big factor because the scaffolding you've built doesn't work anymore because of those fluctuations in hormones.

I did not understand how massive that was.

Until I did an episode on it.

And it surprises me that any of us at the midlife stage are even standing.

Yeah.

Because what the body is going through is huge.

Well, I sat in on a workshop specifically for ADHD women with perimenopause, and I did not hear anyone talk about hot flushes or libido problems or all the things that have been researched the most and that we traditionally think of as being associated with the menopausal transition.

They spoke about the cognitive effects and the emotional effects as being huge.

um burnout was was massive just not trusting themselves to do what they've always done and i think this is relevant because it's not just about women with adhd or who suspect they have adhd it's all women at this time you know your body is doing so much that like estrogen is so bloody important and it's fluctuating like anything and