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Connecting the Dots: My Midlife Journey with Adult AD/HD
- Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Connecting the Dots: My Midlife Journey with Adult AD/HD
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Summary
Most of us have heard of ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), so why is it so common for women not to be diagnosed until they are in midlife? While boys manifest their ADHD in hyperactive behaviors, female sufferers tend to internalize their symptoms, contending with anxiety, depression, demoralization, and self-esteem issues. Because of this, a woman's diagnosis often comes later on, with the realization that she is just not coping with life, work, and relationships as well as she should be. She's not meeting anyone's expectations, certainly not her own. So much has been discovered in the last 10 years about ADHD in girls and women, but a lot of it's still not commonly known. Awareness of your symptoms is the key to change, and it all begins with self-awareness.
Novelist Gabriella West is refreshingly candid about her journey towards a diagnosis of ADHD, which started a few years ago when she encouraged her female partner to get a diagnosis. She uncovers a family history of the disorder, looking back at her own mother's life as a divorced American in Ireland in the 1970s. In Connecting the Dots, she highlights common symptoms that women with inattentive-type ADHD experience, and shows that although getting a diagnosis is not necessarily easy, the relief of finding an explanation for things that previously just seemed "wrong" is enormous and healing.
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- Dee Browne
- 20-07-20
Very refreshing to hear that I am not alone.
Am on my own journey right now and hearing other accounts gives me hope for the process.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-02-22
Short, open and relatable
Thank you for sharing your story, insights and encouraging words to fellow ND, aware of it or not.
We're not alone, just being reminded of it brings hope and some courage to building our strengths and living on purpose.
The way to diagnosis might be long and treacherous. Getting one might not bring the answers or solutions expected, but awareness is necessary for compassion and change.
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- BessieRay
- 06-04-21
very useful
I enjoyed this although I found it disappointingly short. very relatable.
I am a 44 year old woman still awaiting diagnosis in the UK. I believe myself to be quite severely inattentive. Gabriella's comments on SCT which I had heard of but not really explored rang very true with me so I will look into this more now.
I also really appreciated the comments on creativity as a highly creative but 'unsuccessful' person.
The comments on medication were also very helpful as it is something I am beginning to open up to more as an option to help me function better and Goddess knows I need to!
I am partly leaving off a point because of the rather brief dismissive comment about being a parent with ADHD... I am a single mother who only realised my own ADHD through struggling so much to deal with parenting two young children and running a home. Gabriella's comments triggered my own feelings of inadequacy and perhaps failures as a parent when she implied she was thankful to not be a parent because this would be in some way selfish... that's my own stuff I guess but I feel she still set us parents slightly adrift from a compassionate stand point.
Overall it was an interesting and helpful story.
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- S. Irvine
- 24-01-21
Relatable and reassuring
So relatable and reassuring to know that I'm not alone, that there's nothing wrong or broken in me, and that despite my past and the late diagnosis there is still hope for me to do something with my life.
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