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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.

18/12/2025

The real adjustment for a neurodivergent at work is this: emotional safety.

Here’s my Fast Company article, which explains the hidden layer of neuroinclusion that we often overlook: emotional accessibility.

This morning, I went on LBC Radio to discuss the news of a young PR executive with ADHD who won a disability discrimination case against her employer.

The ADHDer was described as “disorganised” for missing a meeting without telling anyone she would be absent.

Here’s the difficulty that I see (on both sides):
💥 How will an employer know to put in reasonable adjustments if they don’t know you’ve an invisible disability?
💥 How will an employee with ADHD open up if they don’t feel safe to do so?

Read my Fast Company article below and let me know your thoughts.
I’m booking sessions for March 2026’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week and International Women’s Day. Please do get in touch.

16/12/2025

This is one of the causes of burnout in AuDHD women,
even if we keep pushing while being severely depleted inside.

Read the story that affects many AuDHD women,
which took me years to get to the root of.

There’s no price to win for being “the strong one”, eventhough biology had proven that we are the stronger s*x. 😇

Train to become an empowered AuDHD women advanced practitioner in February (link in comments).

07/12/2025

Last night I joined Rima Ahmed on BBC Radio 5 LIVE to discuss the latest GP survey claiming ADHD, autism and mental health conditions are being “overdiagnosed.”

On the call:
👉 Me
👉 Dr Sarah Jarvis
👉 Ben, diagnosed after a two-hour interview
👉 Kirstin, an AuDHD woman misdiagnosed with EUPD while in crisis

What hit hard:
❤️‍🩹 The idea that ADHD/autism are “easy diagnoses” — that “anyone can trick a consultant.” (My ASD assessment took 7 months and 4 challenges.)
❤️‍🩹 The conversation has shifted from support to suspicion.
❤️‍🩹 A man had a distressing ADHD assessment but was believed.
❤️‍🩹 An AuDHD woman in her 40s was suddenly labelled EUPD and then fought for 2 years to overturn it.

I was asked why self-diagnosis is rising. My answer: collective distrust in institutions.

What I wish they’d asked?
🤯 How many midlife women are misdiagnosed because peri/menopause + AuDHD + trauma are misunderstood.
🤯 How often women are pathologised with personality disorders when they weren’t even seeking one.

The truth:
💥 Women walk into assessments already doubting themselves because the system is male-biased.
💥 Men and women are not believed in the same way.
💥 Misdiagnosis is rampant — my study with 400 AuDHD women made that painfully clear.

This is why I train professionals to understand AuDHD women through a science-informed, intersectional, lived experience lens:
https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

The system still isn’t built for us — and women are paying the price.
Enough is enough.

I’ll share the playback link when it’s available.

04/12/2025

Here’s how starting mainstream ADHD treatments, can have a knockon effect on AuDHD women:
🫠 restless legs syndrome
🫠 breathing issues
🫠 heart spasm
🫠 panic sensation
🫠 sense of impending doom
🫠 prolonged sleep problems
🫠 gut dysbiosis
🫠 hypothyroidism

When I started my ADHD meds, no one told me that the meds are essentially pro-inflammatory. You add this drug to a nervous system that is already facing extra inflammatory load throughout the month (the women’s nervous system).

Layer on our individual life context.

These are all the symptoms I’ve experienced and some still recur when things get stressful.

I quite like to see prescribers experience these themselves before they give it out to women, before women are taught the skills to manage these pills.

These pills were never made for a nervous system in flux.

Become an empowered AuDHD women advanced practitioner at our February cohort: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

03/12/2025

“Do I choose to belong?
Or do I choose to be myself?”

When...
“Society, traditionally has not been fair to women”
This is how a conversation about ADHD girls with Connor on BBC Radio Ulsterquickly turned into one about masking and belonging.

When society rewards you for masking your brilliance, it can take years to realise…the mask was never you. ✨ 🎭
And right there and then, my life—and our collective problem—flashed before me:

👉 What if this isn’t even your fault? 🤯
👉 You ARE wired to look for social connection,
👉 pre-conditioned to be palatable,
👉 and you over-function, over-work in the spaces you seek belonging?

We talked about why girls fall under the radar,
The science behind why,
What becomes of us late-diagnosed women,
And where to seek support. I wrote my book to help us uncover all the hidden layers that we aren’t talking about enough.

Let’s help create futures where women (and girls) don’t have to abandon themselves just to belong.
I think more of us are ready for it than it looks.

To listen to the full interview (starts at minute 29:30): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mz4p
I’ll post it on ADHD Girls’ YouTube channel too!

My book Tip of the ADHD Iceberg: https://amzn.eu/d/7ObNetQ

19/11/2025

AuDHD women - to know us is to know that we are complex.

And every behaviour needs to be filtered through context, because our nervous system shifts along with the changes in our environment (whether within or outside).

Yesterday inside our AuDHD training, we dove deep into:
👉 genetics and epigenetics
👉 biochemistry
👉 hormones
👉 traumatic vs protective experiences

We talked a lot about hormones, and how that shapes our personalities and us as glorious complex humans.

And one question won’t leave me…
“Was there a greater evolutionary purpose to make such a highly sensitive, complex human?”

We spent most of our lives finding ways to fix ourselves, thinking we are broken (and this becomes more prominent when we go through hormonal shifts)…

But what if we were made this sensitive to filter out the bs in the world and help people face the truths they avoid?

We are the canaries in the coal mine.
Join our February cohort and become an AuDHD women advanced practitioner.

17/11/2025

🌏 The world is finally catching up — and it validates everything I’ve built.

From 1 December 2025, Australia will make it unacceptable for psychologists to assess, diagnose, or treat neurodivergent people using outdated, deficit-based, or neuro-normative frameworks.
(AHPRA | Psychology Board of Australia – 2025 update)

This is historic.
And for many of us, it’s validation of our quiet suffering for decades.

🔥I ran the AuDHD Women Survey one month before Gina Rippon released Lost Girls of Autism… and a full year before this Australian law change.

Because lived experience moves faster than academia and policy.
When the institutions finally acknowledge our lived realities, we’ve already burned, crashed and (hopefully) survived.

🚨 I nearly didn’t make it out of my health crash last year.

The collapse of my hormones, trauma, masking, burnout, and misdiagnosis was the moment I realised:
You cannot understand a neurodivergent woman through an outdated and wholly-biased lens.

That’s why I wrote Tip of the ADHD Iceberg — to show the world what sat beneath the surface.

🌺 And it’s why I built the AuDHD Women Advanced Practitioner Programme.

🙌 Trauma-informed.
🙌 Hormone-informed.
🙌 Neuroscience-informed.
🙌 Lived experience–driven.

Exactly the kind of integrated, ethical approach Australia has now made mandatory.

This isn’t “alternative.”
This is the new standard.

And neurodivergent women deserve nothing less.

13/11/2025

ADHD medication isn’t necessarily failing those of us who are AuDHD.

For women, your hormones, and your nervous system, are not being accounted for.
👉 Most neurodivergent women I work with are on stimulant medication.
👉 Many are also on HRT/ contraception
👉 Some are on SSRIs.

And almost none have been told how these interact with:
👀 The drop in estrogen that increases dopamine sensitivity
👀 The fall in progesterone, reducing GABA and emotional regulation
👀 The rise in histamine, triggering agitation and sensory overload
👀 The resurfacing of trauma during hormonal vulnerability

💥 Add a full stimulant dose into that mix—and the system crashes.
Not just because of the meds.
But because of the timing and attunement to a nervous system in flux.
Women are labelled treatment-resistant or unstable — when their care has never been cyclical to begin with.

This is why we can’t treat women as “little men”.
Why medication needs to be optimised to a woman’s cyclical rhythms and nervous system capacity.

In our current cohort, we are teaching the connection between:
☝ AuDHD - hormones - trauma systems - and co-occurring conditions.
The questions I get approached with becomes increasingly complex, which hint at the number of practitioners who are “shooting in the dark” when it comes to prescribing. 😩

Join our February cohort of the AuDHD Women Advanced Practitioner programme: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

12/11/2025

Our lived experience research is showing the quiet crisis in AuDHD women care:
The disconnected support between psychiatry, gynaecology, and trauma services ❤️‍🩹 🫠

Many women reported that their hormonal shifts (estrogen, progesterone, cortisol) amplified emotional volatility, sensory overwhelm, and burnout — but clinicians often missed this interplay.

Without trauma-informed understanding, symptoms were misread as “mood disorder” or “non-compliance.”

This lack of joined-up care led to:
💥 Repeated misdiagnoses (depression, BPD, bipolar).
💥 Medication contradictions — e.g., stimulants making anxiety worse during luteal phase, or SSRIs prescribed instead of hormone support.
💥 Chronic burnout because emotional and physiological regulation were never stabilized.
💥 Women feeling they had to self-educate and “become their own care coordinator.”

“I’m managing my own case file across three specialists who don’t even use the same language.”

This is the type of knowledge we learn in the AuDHD Women Advanced Practitioner programme. And now, we created a structure so I can support women to applying this knowledge into their lives.

Join us for the next cohort in February 2026 and become an empowered AuDHD women advanced practitioner in 6 weeks (link in bio).

11/11/2025

2050: You wake up to a world that no longer has labels. Everything is filtered through the lens of shifting energetic states - the body, mind, and how we relate. Women’s health gets equal look in 👀

2025: You don’t know what day it is. Brain fog. Am I ADHD, autistic? It’s all shifting everyday. Can I predict what I’m like in X, Y, Z contexts? Why are men on dating apps saying they want to date a woman who’s a little autistic, or a little ADHD?

Here at ADHD Girls, it’s business as usual.
Today we go into the second session of our practitioner programme to understand AuDHD behaviours below the surface. Where labels aren’t really that reliable, especially when our states shift - and we go into how our physical states and lives in society impact how we show up.

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