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00:00 Intro
00:55 What is ADHD?
03:07 Why I thought I had it
05:52 ADHD in girls and women
07:40 Executive functioning disorder
12:35 Seeking a referral
18:03 Examples of ADHD
18:54 The assessment
22:12 What I wanted to get out of it
33:13 Hypermobility and ADHD
34:26 Where do we go from here?
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
"I was damaged from the start" hit me right in the feelings. I know it sounds really negative, but sometimes acknowledging that you had a disadvantage from the get go lifts a huge weight off your shoulders.
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Honestly, seeing an adult woman fidget openly is so uplifting to me 💙
Welcome to the club, friend!
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It was SO freeing to find out I have ADHD. To know that my struggles were so real and because my brain is wired differently - not because I’m lazy or garbage. My therapist asked me why I wanted a diagnosis and my response was validation. I hear you. I see you. Welcome to the club!
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Having a lot of invisible illnesses really can be frustrating and of course difficult to get them all diagnosed. Congrats to you and everyone in this community reading this dealing with invisible illness.
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I think the best part of diagnosis is just realising you aren’t a fundamentally shameful/broken neurotypical person, you’re actually just normal for someone neurodivergent! And that’s okay!
Shifting my goals away from conformity at all costs & towards self-love, self-determination and joy is the best thing I’ve ever done for myself, and it’s lovely not to be alone in that!
Sending you love & solidarity Jessica! <33
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Your story about your psychiatrist reminded me of probably the most memorable session I had with my first therapist. I was in 11th grade, my first year away from home (boarding school just for last 2 years of high school) and while I had always had some anxiety, particularly social anxiety, it was significant enough that year to be affecting my grades (which of course is what made it worth addressing haha) and was beginning to edge into agoraphobia. And she was asking me how a typical day went, and I started with, "In the morning, I go to the cafeteria and eat breakfast."
"Do many other kids eat breakfast in the cafeteria?"
"Not as many as at lunch, but yeah."
"That's very brave of you."
And I just stared at her for a minute. I don't think anyone had ever called me brave before. I had been focusing on the meals I did skip, on the moments the fear overwhelmed me, and discounted all the moments I pushed through because "that's just what everyone does." But not everyone struggled with agoraphobia. I was being brave, but her telling me that was the first time I actually believed it. I'm still not great at being kind to myself, but I think without something like that moment it would've been impossible. It was really the first time I realized I didn't necessarily have to judge myself by the standard of "what other people can do."
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For my ADHD and Autistic brain, watching you actively stimming (in case you did not know, that is what those hand motions are called) is both hypnotizing and helping me stay focused on your video because there are now three sources of movement - your face (which is very expressive and beautiful), the subtitles, and your hands. Thank you for including them.
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Welcome to the ADHD club.
I’ve seen a lot of online chatter about ‘everyone has (insert condition) these days’ and I’ve got some points for the naysayers…
One, if you’ve got ADHD, you’ve always had it, it’s not something someone just “gets” one day
Two, I think that it’s not that we all want to have some condition, but that we want understanding. “Why can I not do this? How come they remember and I don’t? I need to do that, but my brain won’t let me!” Etc etc
As an ADHDer, I find it helpful to have the terminology and understanding of how my brain functions in its own atypical way, and that knowledge helps me to structure my life and such in ways that might be unusual to some, but are more effective for me.
This is a soapbox I’ll always hop on - Most folks aren’t looking for an illness or label - they are looking for answers and for help.
My speculation is that after the pandemic and various other stressful events we’ve all ridden out in the last decade or two, people are more aware of their mental health and are seeking care. That’s why everyone “suddenly” has a diagnosis… for the thing they’ve always had 🤷🏻♀️
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You can’t imagine how useful this will be to so many women that have faced the same struggles x
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Welcome to the club of late diagnosed ADHD ❤️
I was only diagnosed a few months ago at the age of 33 after becoming a mom and working through a lot of childhood trauma. A lot of people asked me why I even wanted to know it, because „I have it together now, so why bother“ - well yes, but I can finally heal my inner child who thought she was utterly broken all this time. So many things make sense now!
Oh, and I realize now that most of my favourite content creators have ADHD - what a coincidence 😄
Anyways - thank you for your openness!!
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Watching you cry out of the kindness of the therapist who told you you did well made me want to give you a hug!! Jessica, you're such an wonderful human being. I really hope finding out about ADHD helps you from now on.
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I can’t imagine how hard growing up without treatment for ADHD or even knowing you have it! My heart goes out to everyone who deals with that.
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oh my god this has actually hit me so hard emotionally-- "internal" hyperactivity, the dissociation, the just feeling so lost because of how much there is inside your brain :-( i've always just felt a little silly and like i was maybe less intelligent or too sensitive because of all of it but. this made me feel so seen <33 sending you all the love !!! thank you for making me and so many other people feel sooo seen and loved <3
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Watching all my favourite female YouTubers get diagnosed with ADHD is really something else. We really flock together😂
I am currently trying to get diagnosed but I've been told twice, by ADHD professionals, that my grades were too good as a child so therefore I couldn't have had it as a child. Despite me telling them that I didn't have to study for that and that I still forgot my homework all the time and I still struggled. It's so exhausting.
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“Jessica has found success, love, and family in her life, and so will I!”- a new mantra I’m going to try, starting right now
Thank you for such a vulnerable video. We love you so much!
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when i was a child a doctor told my parents that i had traits of adhd but 'it'd probably pass'. recently i found out he said that because i was a girl. yes it did "pass": i found coping mechanisms that made me not bother others and all my teens i was described as 'kind of clumsy' and 'with her head in the clouds'. now I'm trying to save money to get a private diagnosis and finally get professional help
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Relate so hard to that “they’re not careless mistakes!!!!” That reminds me of when I forget what I wanted to say, and someone else says, “it must not have been important!” Ugh makes my stomach churn
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Wow, great timing! I literally was diagnosed last month. I was so scared of my doctor dismissing me as an adult woman, but he was amazing. Needless to say, I "passed" with flying colours! I'm still struggling to accept the diagnosis. Part of me keeps wondering, "What if I tricked my doctor somehow??", even though my symptoms are really, really obvious and I have family members with ADHD. Hopefully it'll get easier soon! Thanks for sharing your story.
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Welcome to the club!! I got my ADHD (Combined Type) diagnosis at 29. I had no idea growing up. And now, this year, at 33, I got my formal Autism diagnosis. The overlap for both with EDS is super common. ADHD medication changed my life, and actually helped a lot with my EDS and POTS symptoms - turns out when your brain isn't on fire all the time, everything hurts less.
If you notice any sensory sensitivity symptoms getting 'worse' or more pronounced after starting ADHD medication, it is worth looking at Autism as well, because having both is actually far more common than people realise (again, especially with EDS!!).
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Jessica deciding to stim openly instead of off-camera or cutting it out makes me really happy- it's something my friends and myself have been doing a lot more lately and seeing that unbridled ADHD/ASD joy is just so comforting
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