S1 E41 What if Nothing Is Wrong With You? Why ADHD Women Blame Themselves
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Why do ADHD women often feel like they’re constantly failing?
When something small goes wrong, does your brain suddenly turn it into evidence that you are fundamentally failing at life? Missing one appointment and immediately I'm totally irresponsible. Obviously. Or you can't start a task that should take like ten minutes and somehow your brain decides to land on the reasoning of wow. It's obviously because I'm incapable. ADHD has this way of making normal human friction. Those things we run across in every day. It makes it deeply personal. For a lot of women the default question becomes, What is wrong with me? maybe another approach, if we reframe it, would be what's going on for me right now.
How does the shift from “What’s wrong with me?” to “What’s going on with me?” change mindset?
This is Angry on the Inside. I'm Jess. And I'm Janine. We're both certified ADHD coaches, but this podcast isn't coaching. It's not therapy and it's not medical advice. It's just real honest conversations about being women with late diagnosed ADHD and Everything that goes along with it. Take what resonates and leave the rest. Today we're talking about something that can completely change the way you experience your ADHD.
What role does executive dysfunction play in everyday overwhelm?
It's that shift from what's wrong with me to what's going on with me. Would you brand that as subtle? Because emotionally, I think it's pretty huge. A lot of us grew up being told that we were screw-ups. That was my default. We all learned bad mantras from those around us. Not starting something meant I was lazy and forgetting something meant I was careless. When I started to get overwhelmed, it meant I was over emotional. And when I struggled to have relationships and friends, I was too sensitive and I needed to not take everything personally. People people often don't see that actual roadblock, right? They only see the outcome. That's where they make all those assumptions about us. And if you were diagnosed later in life, you didn't see those roadblocks either.
Think it was easy for Us to buy into it.
Why do typical “just do it” productivity tips feel dismissive for ADHD brains?
We grew up with a half-assed understanding of ourselves, but a whole-assed version of what everybody thought we were supposed to be. And so it sort of leaves you looking at this unfinished project that you don't recognize as being unfinished, you recognize it as being broken or needing to be fixed. But a lot of it comes down to the executive dysfunction. Who knew? All the ladies with E. D., let's shout it out. And we're talking about executive dysfunction and not any other type of easy. Right? Though plenty of women do have uh experience dealing with other people's E D. Anywho. Moving on. Jump to the self blame. It's easy for all of us to Even though it's a spectrum disorder, even though our our community running joke is if you've met one person with ADHD, you've met one person, we still have so many common denominators that link us together.
And this is one of them. One thing my diagnosis changed for me was realizing I didn't need more self criticism. I actually needed more curiosity about what was really going on. I didn't understand the word curiosity. And I think it's an amazing word, but I never understood the actual meaning of it until we went through training uh for coaching because part of the coaching mindset is to be curious. And I'm like, what the fuck does that mean?
How can simple accommodations—like the “run the dishwasher twice” trick—reduce ADHD stress?
I am always curious. I realized it's a little bit more than that to have that relationship with yourself. Part of it's starting to learn to love you, the you that's just you. Yeah, when something goes wrong though My instinct is still to attack myself. It's a hard habit to break. But you know, asking what's going on for me. creates space and it slows down the spiral enough to back away from this self-criticism and investigate what's really happening. Usually there is A reason. There is something going on. Exactly. Well, there are examples. It might be a case in my life my dopamine may have tanked. And the task has no novelty whatsoever. My nervous system could be extremely overloaded. I might be in decision paralysis.
I'd be exhausted because I've been masking nonstop. There's a lot of reasons that can pop up. And these are reasons, not excuses. So I just want to make sure that we all know that too.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do ADHD women often feel like they’re constantly failing?
0:02–0:42
2
How does the shift from “What’s wrong with me?” to “What’s going on with me?” change mindset?
0:42–1:10
3
What role does executive dysfunction play in everyday overwhelm?
1:10–1:58
4
Why do typical “just do it” productivity tips feel dismissive for ADHD brains?
1:58–3:16
5
How can simple accommodations—like the “run the dishwasher twice” trick—reduce ADHD stress?
3:16–4:58
6
What’s the benefit of stopping the fight against your ADHD brain?
4:58–5:55
7
How does building self‑trust and curiosity replace shame for ADHD women?
5:55–6:14
8
What final encouragement helps listeners feel less alone and angry inside?
6:14–20:32
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