6/14/2023 0 Comments Tangled aha moment![]() But this week, since I'm the one who shared my story, Amanda is going to be interviewing me. This is our first episode, and we're already going to go off script, because normally what you're going to hear is me interviewing the story sharer from the first segment of each show. I'm already laughing because I'm here today with my dear friend, Amanda Morin, who is the host of the "In It" podcast, which is also part of the Understood Podcast Network. Each episode, we'll hear a story from someone new - that might be a person with ADHD or someone who noticed ADHD in someone else. It's really real." The moments when the symptoms of ADHD become crystal clear. Welcome to "ADHD Aha!" On our show, we're going to dive into the moments that make people go "Yup. I'm the editorial director at Understood. It was the moment that showed me that my ADHD was real, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. But the most important "aha" moment was the first one I ever had. Now it's about 10 years later and I've had many "aha" moments that helped me be kinder to myself. But more than anything, I didn't think I deserved a reason to struggle. Maybe my perfectionist self blamed my own willpower and thought that I should just be able to deal with it on my own. I didn't believe my diagnosis when I got it. It was very emotional to see my childhood writing and my childhood struggles all coming together.Īnd I just started crying. Some in bubble letters like a kid would do. Every other page just had the word "focus" scribbled all over the pages, everywhere, in different shapes. Laura: I stumbled across one particular journal from when I was 13 or 14. ![]() Together they talk about ADHD in women and girls, anxiety, and why so many people with ADHD struggle with perfectionism. But it took an emotional moment in her childhood bedroom for it to finally click that her ADHD is real.Ĭolleague, friend, and In It podcast host Amanda Morin interviews Laura. Laura was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. In this first-ever episode of the ADHD Aha! podcast, host Laura Key shares her own ADHD “aha” moment.
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