ADHD Chatter

How To Process The Grief Of A Late ADHD Diagnosis

ADHD Chatter

Show Notes

Kat Brown is the author of 'It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult' and editor of 'No One Talks About This Stuff'.

Chapters:

00:31 Early memories of feeling different

04:34 Kat’s masking journey

06:32 Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

18:45 Kat’s ADHD mission

23:42 ADHD diagnosis realisations

31:43 Tiimo advert

35:21 ADHD masking

45:09 Why women have been let down

49:22 Consequence of life without identity

51:34 Our eternal pursuit of love

53:45 What would you say to the bullies

56:09 Kat’s ADHD item

58:51 Audience questions (washing machine of woes)

01:03:58 A letter to my younger self

Visit Kat on Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/katbrownwrites/?hl=en-gb

It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-Bloody-Trend-Understanding/dp/1472148703

No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Talks-About-This-Stuff/dp/1800182872

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Buy Alex's book entitled 'Now It All Makes Sense' 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-All-Makes-Sense-Diagnosis/dp/1399817817

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Producer: Timon Woodward

Recorded by: Hamlin Studios

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