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ADHD Girls is a social impact company with a mission to empower girls and women with ADHD to thrive and elevate neurodiversity understanding via an intersectional lens Powered by personal lived experiences of ADHD, we work to destigmatise ADHD and support ADHDers via:

Post-diagnosis Support:: Personal and professional development workshops for ADHDers;

Advocacy: Producing thought-provoking digital awareness campaigns and events;

ADHD training: Running ADHD awareness session within education and work settings to improve cultural understanding of ADHD and providing best practice approach to support ADHDers. We work on the basis of the strengths-based approach, recognising that neurodiversity is a cross between the medical model, intersectionality, and the social model of disability.

10/02/2026

I just want to say THANK YOU. 💝
I didn’t expect my last post to receive the response it did. 💫
It shows our voices want to be heard. 📣

Within the comments were lived experience, professional insight, grief, anger, hope, and soul-deep recognition from women, practitioners, researchers, coaches, educators, and allies who know this system isn’t working.

Some of the themes I found:
💥 the cost of masking and over-functioning
💥 the harm of being assessed through an outdated lens
💥 the confusion of split ADHD / autism pathways for those who are AuDHD
💥 the invisibility of hormones, trauma, culture, and context
💥 the exhaustion of not being “disruptive enough” to be taken seriously

I read every comment.
So imagine my SURPRISE when I received an email yesterday showing that this conversation has already travelled further than this post! 😭 🤩

It brought on a meeting with those leading the UK’s independent review of mental health, ADHD, and autism. And I’m carrying your words, questions, and lived realities with me into that space... because my own experience has been shaped by the same gaps.

As someone who spent the last week wondering why on earth I feel so tired and discovered a link between iron deficiency anaemia and prolonged stimulant intake, and how this connects with hormones, neurotransmitter clearance, and quality of life...!

It’s time we banish reductionist thinking and ask better questions. It is my hope that our collective truth becomes the catalyst for social change.

If you commented, shared, questioned, challenged, or simply felt seen, thank you.

This isn’t over. It’s just beginning. 🦁

Intersectionality CollectiveVoice

08/02/2026

If the DSM-5 is being revised, here’s what I’d want to see.

ADHD and autism were never meant to look the way they do in the manuals.
They were observed through a narrow lens: mostly boys, mostly externalised behaviours, mostly disruption-as-symptom.

But that’s not how these neurotypes live in
🙌 women
🙌 complex, overlapping nervous systems like AuDHD.

What I’d want the DSM to finally acknowledge:

🧠 Internalised presentations
Silent distress that looks like Hypervigilance, rumination, emotional shutdown, people-pleasing, over-functioning - these aren’t “coping well”.
And when emotions tip over, the “dysregulation” needs to be recognised as a system overload.
They are nervous systems working overtime to survive.

🎭 Masking as a core feature, not an afterthought.
Many women would be diagnosed in a heartbeat for the autism masking scale because they mask, especially in social relationships.
The cost shows up later: burnout, chronic illness, relational breakdowns, loss of self.

⚡ AuDHD as its own profile
ADHD + autism isn’t just a sum of traits. Its in a class of its own. It’s a push-pull nervous system with conflicting needs for stimulation and safety. Treating them separately misses the lived reality entirely.

🧩 Context, hormones, and trauma
Symptoms shift across puberty, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, perimenopause. Trauma can amplify or camouflage traits. A static checklist cannot capture a dynamic nervous system.

🌍 Intersectional and cultural reality
Race, class, gender roles, migration, religion - these all shape how “symptoms” appear and whether they’re even allowed to be seen.

Most of all, I’d want a move away from asking:
“How disruptive are you to the system?”
and toward:
“What does your nervous system need to function, relate, and live well?”

Because for many women, the real diagnosis came not from the DSM -
but from the moment their lifelong exhaustion finally made sense.

02/02/2026

AuDHDers need to know how changing biology can impact reaction to ADHD medication.

I came through this from my own health crash.

Tomorrow, we run the third cohort of the AuDHD in Women Intersectional Scientific Practitioner Programme.

Since then, l’ve been able to stand tall and say. My work is built on INTEGRITY (and maybe a little blood, sweat, and tears too.)

I know I’m still pretty early in this “Train the helpers” journey, if you’ve been on the sidelines and you’re a practitioner who’s wondering if you’re doing the right thing with your AuDHD clients,
Be one of our early adopters. You only need to look at our last video to see the transformation our graduates have gone through.

https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

01/02/2026

ADHD, Autism and Hormonal Impact on... EVERYTHING

There’s a huge difference between our mid-follicular and luteal phases: estrogen drops, and along with it - dopamine, acetylcholine, and serotonin.

Our hormonal rhythms need to be tailored for at least these three areas:
🌟 Work
🌟 Therapy
🌟 Medications

We teach the interactions between hormonal changes and neurotransmitters in autism, ADHD, and AuDHD to support safe diagnostics and care for neurodivergent women. Join us here: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

Can you think of any other areas where we can use our cycle knowledge to advocate for our needs?

30/01/2026

I walked into The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Neurodevelopmental Conditions conference feeling hopeful - and left with my brain buzzing and my heart conflicted.

The room was divided in awareness. Here’s what I thought below.👇

💬 Let’s keep this conversation going. Share your experience in the comments if this resonates.

Join our practitioner traiining: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

27/01/2026

This is what no one tells AuDHD women about ADHD medication and hormones. I learned it the hard way.

After giving birth at 39, I was dealing with crushing fatigue.
ADHD medication helped my brain come back online — in a way that felt familiar from my 20s and 30s.

But over time, something else was happening.

Following common advice to increase stimulant dosage during the luteal phase worked short-term, but for my AuDHD system, it created prolonged physiological stress. I didn’t realise how much careful monitoring my brain and body actually needed.

What I didn’t understand then:

💡 the AuDHD nervous system can be more sensitive to sustained stimulant load
💡 estrogen plays a key role in how dopamine is utilised
💡 chronic stress over time can disrupt hormonal balance and impact health

I was blissfully unaware of how interconnected these systems are — until my body made it impossible to ignore.
That realisation became one of the biggest turning points in my work.
Today, I train practitioners to think beyond isolated symptoms and to understand the interplay between neurodivergence, hormones, stress physiology, and lived experience.

If you work with neurodivergent women — or are one — this matters.

Our AuDHD Women’s Advanced Practitioner programme begins in one week: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

P/S: Going to Mexico to speak to for this podcast interview was the best thing that happened last year.

26/01/2026

A neurodivergent woman in a large corporate once told me:
“I work really hard until I burn out.
Then I take a holiday.
Then I come back and do it again.
My system never fully recovers.”

She asked: “How can I become more resilient?”

At the time, I talked about mindset, psychological safety, and tools to communicate boundaries.

What I didn’t realise then was that my ADHD medication masked the stress in my body,
So I pushed through until my system eventually collapsed.

Here’s why we need to talk about this during Neurodiversity Celebration Week. It’s true autistic individuals can be 200% more productive than those who aren’t,
But we need to be realistic about what’s sustainable in the long run.

Join our AuDHD women advanced practitioner training: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

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24/01/2026

Early on, a coach told me, “You built ADHD Girls without medication.” It stuck with me. It wasn’t because I had a superior ADHD brain;
I wasn’t just ADHD either. I am AuDHD.

It turns out there are major differences between ADHD and AuDHD that are often missed - especially when it comes to how our brains process, respond to, and metabolise medication.

ADHD Meds can push our AuDHD brain into “Fake Resilience”
When coping looks like functioning - but the body is paying the price.

Want to know how I found out? 👇
Hint: there was a health crash that followed a period of “high functioning”.
Read this article to understand how I learned to manage my needs, and why certain things never quite worked the way they were “supposed to.”

https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

23/01/2026

Women drive soaring use of ADHD medication
Well this headline in all the newspapers in the UK yesterday caught my eye.

In the UK, methylphenidate is the top meds being prescribed for ADHD, with Elvanse following a close second.

In Australia, it’s Vyvanse.
For an AuDHD woman, in shifting contexts during perimenopause, the biological changes in our menstrual cycle plays a huge role in how the medication work, how we feel, and what we choose to do when we feel they don’t work as well.

Have we stopped to understand how to support a woman holistically, when pills don’t make skills to manage ADHD/ AuDHD?

We teach you how to recognise shifting contexts inside our AuDHD women’s advanced practitioner programme. Join us from February 3rd: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

22/01/2026

Neurodivergent women have always needed to feel safe, seen and supported, but we often get the opposite in healthcare.

What if we learn to honour complexity, rather than simplifying solutions and layering another medication to fix “dysegulation”?

I get that sometimes, it can be a case of emergency, but more often than not, what we need is a different line of questioning.

Beginning by asking about contexts across different layers that affect her biology, psychology and the quality of her relationships and support network.

What if we choose to treat her like a human who deserves respect?

Become an AuDHD women advanced practitioner and transform your practice in real time. Join us this February: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

21/01/2026

How much are autistic ADHD women’s symptoms a result of care that never truly cared?

Some examples of what we see in the community:
🥹 polypharmacy: layering on of many medications
🥹 no hormonal tracking
🥹 masking and results of this adaptation dismissed

We bring a holistic look using the TOTI framework, hormonal trackers, and a coaching manual to support AuDHD women with insightful questions about her context, delivered with compassion and safety.

These are all built on the foundation of our lived experience research.

Join us as we begin the third cohort on February 3rd: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

20/01/2026

"How did you get here?" I was asked last week.
So I thought I’d take you back to 2016,
When I was navigating the spiritual experience of being a first-time mum

In 2016:
🌸 My daughter was 2, I had quit full-time work as I was denied flexible working while struggling with postnatal anxiety & undiagnosed AuDHD
🌸 still breastfeeding my daughter
🌸 joined for her first "Flex Appeal" campaign for flexible working for mums who got pregnant and were pushed out of work
🌸 became an Instamum
🌸 launched a soft-furnishing brand, sold at my local Christmas market, stood for 12 hours in the snow
🌸 did commercial modelling, often cast as a scientist, doctor or nurse (the irony)
🌸 wrote a culture column (basically journaling my existential crisis)
🌸 spent ALL my time with my 2-year-old cutie. I was happy even in the midst of feeling lost

In 2026, well, I am here.
I "got here" through
Persistent reinvention,
Believing in myself before the world did, Hard work,
and amplifying the voices of neurodivergents,
by living it first.

Moving forward, PEACE is my guidance,
because success for me is striking a
BALANCE between mission and motherhood.

"Not all who wander are lost"
And if you’re in transition, we’ll help you find your way home.
Join the February cohort of ADHD Girls’ unapologetically neurodivergent-led AuDHD women's advanced practitioner programme.

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