ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

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Before we decide a kid with ADHD needs fixing, has anyone asked the kid how the lesson is going?
Diana Heldfond was diagnosed with dyslexia at seven. She credits the specialists who taught her to read and write with understanding where she was getting stuck. 
Her ADHD was easier to miss. She was the type A kid who never missed a deadline, often because she was finishing her homework the morning it was due. That looked like laziness, so it slid by for years until she asked to be tested herself. 
That experience stayed with her. After Georgetown and a career in investment banking, Diana founded Parallel Learning to bring the kind of individual support she’d had to kids who might otherwise go without it. Today, Parallel works with more than 250 school districts.
I asked Diana about something I remember from trying to find help for my own son. You find a specialist with all the right credentials, and your kid comes home and tells you it didn’t help. Where do you go from there? If the kid loves aliens, why not give him something about aliens to read?

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ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.
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Politics has a way of putting people into boxes. Danielle Ford has spent much of her life questioning why those boxes exist in the first place.
When Danielle first joined me, she had just won a seat on the Clark County School Board. Today, she’s running for governor of Nevada as a nonpartisan candidate with a philosophy she calls systems repair: the belief that education, health care, housing, affordability, and government accountability are all connected, and real solutions need to address them together.
Diagnosed with ADHD at 30, Danielle has spent years questioning rules that don’t make sense, connecting ideas others overlook, and being labeled difficult for challenging the status quo. But after losing her reelection campaign, she began questioning herself. She had so many ideas and interests, but where were they actually leading her?
We talk about the exhaustion of being misunderstood, how Danielle found the common thread connecting her seemingly scattered career, and why she refuses to let political labels define her approach. It's a conversation about finding your purpose, trusting the way your brain works, and realizing that doing things differently doesn't mean you're doing them wrong.

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Website: https://daniellefornevada.com 
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ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.
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What happens when a girl gets tested for ADHD and walks out with a different answer?
At 11, Molly Smith was evaluated for ADHD and ended up diagnosed with anxiety. Her teachers noticed she couldn’t sit still and talked out of turn, but she was a good student who loved school, so the daydreaming, the chewed pencils, and the tears during timed math tests got chalked up to nerves.
For the next decade, she blamed herself. When a therapist finally pushed her to get tested again at 21, the psychologist reviewed her childhood report and said she didn’t know how anyone could have missed it.
Today Molly is a freelance writer and creative marketer, and the host of the movie podcast Did That Age Well?
In this episode, we talk about what gets missed when a smart girl looks fine on paper, the cost of believing your struggles are a character flaw, and what changed when Molly finally understood her brain.
If you keep thinking you should be able to handle things by now, there’s a lot here you’ll recognize.

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Website: https://www.portfoliomollysmith.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-smith 
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/didthatagewell 
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@didthatagewellpod 
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ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.
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One critical comment. You can get a hundred lovely ones, and that’s the one you’re still thinking about hours later. Then you’re frustrated with yourself because why do you care so much?
Dr. Catherine Mutti-Driscoll knows this feeling. She’s the Director of Executive Function Coaching at the Hallowell ADHD & Behavioral Health Center in Seattle and the author of The Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Workbook. I had the honor of writing the foreword, and I’m so happy to have her back.
We talk about why rejection can hit so hard, how the fear of it can influence choices we don’t even realize we’re making, and the part I especially love: the strengths Catherine sees in this sensitivity. Because when you’ve spent years wondering why you take everything so personally, there is a lot more about yourself you deserve to understand.
If one critical comment can take over your week, this conversation will help you understand why it stays with you long after everyone else has moved on.
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Website: https://catherinemuttidriscoll.com
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ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.
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Anita Robertson prepared for everything when she became a mom. Then the parts nobody warned her about showed up anyway.
Anita is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, ADHD mom, and author of ADHD and Us. She's back on the show with her new book, Being a Mom with ADHD, and I was honored to write the foreword.
Knowing her ADHD history, she had a plan for postpartum mental health. That part went fine. What blindsided her was everything else: a birth that left her barely able to move, sensory needs suddenly going unmet, hormones changing how her brain worked, and a son who didn't sleep through the night for three years. When an occupational therapist fixed his bedtime in a few weeks with a simple sensory routine, her first thought was, why is this not common knowledge?
In this episode, Anita and I get into how pregnancy and hormones affect the ADHD brain, why she gave mom guilt a name and a villain's hat, what mom rage is actually telling you, and why she says stop fighting for consistency and redesign your setup instead.
If motherhood has made you feel like you're losing your mind, this conversation will show you how much of it was never your fault.

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Website: https://www.anitarobertson.com
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ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.
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