ADHD AF

We are so grateful to ADHD Babes for joining us on the late ADHD diagnosis rollercoaster, and so excited to share this insightful interview with two  absolute mega babes!  ADHD Babes founder Vivienne Isebor & Podcast Producer Shauna Campbell share their late ADHD diagnosis stories and the work of their incredible Community Group for Black Women & Non-Binary people with ADHD.  Us newly ‘dia...

We conclude ADHD Awareness Month with this VERY SPECIAL Episode in which some of our amazing listeners share what they want the world to know about ADHD. The theme for ADHD Awareness Month 2022 is ‘Understanding a Shared Experience’, and we feel incredibly privileged to be able to use our platform to empower our listeners to share their ADHD experience with the world! Back in August we ran a campa...

Welcome to the wonderful world of Sheri Scott, aka @foreveryoursbetty  We are both longterm fans of this incredible creative's content, so we feel very lucky and incredibly grateful to have had a blether with this absolute tangerine dream!  Glasgow's finest Sheri, is a multi-hyphenate - very appropriately nicknamed 'the ideas factory'. Her flame haired head hosts a brilliant br...

On Tuesday 4th October Dawn went for an NHS ADHD Assessment in Aberdeen. We couldn't believe that her long awaited diagnosis day was falling in ADHD Awareness Month, AND on the day we hit 100K downloads!  Suffice to say, this was not the episode we thought we would be putting out!  This is an Episode of two parts. As planned, we wanted to share this very important experience in real time, so...

This is a very special episode for ADHD Awareness Month! Part 2 of our collaboration with The ADHD Adults… In Part 1, Dr Alex Conner and Dr James Brown interview us on their Podcast - Tap here to listen: https://www.adhdadult.uk/podcast/ Or watch us squirm in our first ever interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/hyzm9AMjOqQ In this episode, we swap roles (PHEW!) and invite Alex and James onto...

Jenny Okolo is a lead psychiatric occupational therapist, and an award-nominated mental health advocate, with extensive experience in the criminal justice sector.   This summer Jenny became a TEDx Speaker for TEDxNHS.  In her incredible talk she invited listeners to challenge the limits of their empathy, displaying the enormous impact compassion can have.  ‘TEDxNHS was founded as a unique movement...

This EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE is a wee blether with Phionna McInnes about her AMAZING Aberdeen event for ADHD Awareness Month🎗 We welcome you to team weird and invite you to ‘You, Me & ADHD’, a ladies lunch at The Chester Hotel on 2nd October 12-4pm Bringing the Aberdeen ADHD women’s community together and raising funds for Phionna’s incredible charity We Too! ,which empowers families of ch...

Joe Charlan is both a legend, and ADHDAF family! Freshly diagnosed Joe was born and educated as female in the 70s and 80s - which will likely play a large role in why he’s only just been diagnosed at the age of 46!  Mancunian Joe,  a Commissioning Manager supporting people with disabilities, now identifies as a transgender man.  Right at the very start of this podcast, Joe reached out thanking us...

We can’t believe we’ve made twenty episodes… ironically, that’s probably due to imposter syndrome! This is a really meaty episode(!) in which we share our insta story poll results, our personal reflections, and answer your ‘ask us anything’ questions.  Never has their been a week where we have achieved so much and felt like such total failures! Comparison is the thief of joy, and imposter syndrome...

Hanna, is so driven to achieve her healthy eating and fitness goals that she motivates others to do the same online: @hannabfitness  So it could be a surprise to hear that Hanna was diagnosed this year with ADHD at the age of 40! BUT, what we have learnt on our late diagnosed ADHD mission is that THERE IS NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL! Despite the similarities between ADHDers there are as many differences....

This episode comes with an ENORMOUS TRIGGER WARNING! Containing mentions of: ED, BN, AN, ABW, BDD, BI, BETRS, COE, EDNOS, MH, SH, CA, SUI Please handle this episode with care, and don’t listen if any of the above or any mentions of disordered eating are triggering for you. If you are struggling with disordered eating in any form, please reach out for the help you need. One example of a fantastic c...

Imagine getting a private diagnosis after hearing the lengthy wait for an NHS ADHD assessment, only to then have said diagnosis denied by the NHS!  That’s exactly what happened to our next guest earlier this year… New Yorker, Nicole followed her heart to Edinburgh, Scotland, where she lives with her Scottish husband and works as a writer. She’s currently reviewing acts performing in the Edinburgh...

Undiagnosed ADHDers can’t cope. The NHS can’t cope. And we can’t cope with constantly hearing from listeners just how broken the ADHD (in particular the adult ADHD) diagnostic system is!  We haven’t started this podcast to get internet points, we’ve done it to help others like us.  We get multiple messages daily telling us our ramblings are helping people feel validated and less alone in their suf...

We are so grateful to Helen Anderson for joining us on the late ADHD diagnosis rollercoaster, and so excited to share this insightful and hilarious interview with an absolute powerhouse! Helen humbly introduces herself as an ‘Internet Person’ (ADHDers tend to self deprecate) Helen is in fact an internet sensation! She has an ENORMOUS online following of her YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/hel...

We are reunited in Aberdeen, after Laura's couple of weeks on the road selling her handmade wears at The Secret Garden Party.  Not only does that explain the length of this episode (us neurodivergent neighbours had a lot of catching up to do!) but it also led us to the topic of this Episode.  With Dawn studying 3D Design at University and Laura into her 12th year as a creative entrepreneur wi...

We are so excited about this Episode. It’s a bit longer than usual; as Louise shared so many pearls, we didn’t want to cut any out! (Hence why there’s minimal into/outro from us)  As many of you will be aware, Louise Williams is an absolute LEGEND!  She has an incredible blog - Pink Pear Bear - and ADHD support groups of the same name.  Louise has been making much needed noise about mental health...

Apologies in advance that the sound isn’t the usual standard. We had to record this on the road - literally! In every Episode of ADHDAF we invite you to join us on our late ADHD diagnosis journey, but in this particular instalment you are joining us on an actual journey too(!) from north east Scotland down to Blackpool in a car full to the rafters of festival accessories, with a surprise guest app...

We still can’t believe this happened!  Award winning Australian Author, feminist icon and absolute legend Clementine Ford shares her ADHD story with us in this very special episode.  Clementine’s bestselling book ‘Fight Like a Girl’ is the essential feminists manifesto.  Her other incredible writing work includes: ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ and her latest book: ‘How We Love.’  Previously a columnist for...

Following on from our slightly controversial opinions voiced in our interview with Dr Alex Conner of The ADHD adults Podcast; this week we are deep diving into booze. NOT LITERALLY!  We reveal our story poll results, which we were pretty surprised by, whilst giving our personal answers and reflections.  After divulging our own experiences as undiagnosed ADHDers and alchohol we share some informati...

This is a really special one!  In this episode, we interview the other half of the duo who inspired us to start this podcast with theirs - The ADHD Adults Podcast. Dr Alex Conner: - Reader in Biomedical Science Communication at the University of Birmingham Medical School  - Co-founder of the charity ADHD Adult UK - Co-founder of Focus, a free online magazine about Adult ADHD - Co-host of the afore...

This Episode comes with multiple trigger warnings, and it was incredibly triggering for us to record.  We explore the many ways in which undiagnosed ADHD has cost us in ‘romantic’ relationships throughout our lives. We distinguish this type of relationship, as we will cover other types of personal relationships  ADHD Tax has cost us in a future episode. The quotation marks are also there for irony...

We still can't believe that our second ADHDAF guest is the one and only Sophia Hilton! The owner of the Not Another Brand has completely disrupted the industry in the last 6 years. Starting with the most talked about salon, Not Another Salon. She then went on to open 3 more companies, including an the biggest selling in-person academy in the UK, a social media consultancy company and retail....

In this Episode we discover the meaning and horrifying statistics of ADHD Tax. We share our story poll answers before exploring our own experiences in answering those questions. ADHD Tax is an enormous topic! Deep diving into it, we realised that we’ve already explored the health aspect in our Self-Care Episode. For this one, we focus more on money, employment and financial struggles, before divul...

This one's totes emosh! In this episode, we interview one half of the duo who inspired us to start this podcast with theirs - The ADHD Adults Podcast. Dr James Brown:  - Associate Professor, School of Biosciences Aston University - Co-founder of the charity ADHD Adult UK - Co-founder of Focus , a free online magazine about Adult ADHD - Co-host of the aforementioned podcast with Dr Alex Conner...

Unmasking...how do we do it?! No really! Trying to unlearn the learnt behaviour of hiding our neurodivergence to ‘fit in’. In this episode we divulge the stats from our Masking insta Poll {@adhdasfemales} before answering the questions ourselves.  We share the ways in which we have historically masked ADHD, and explore how to take off the mask.  We conclude with our weekly segments; ‘Differences’...