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ADHD Girls is a social impact company with a mission to empower neurodivergent women with the knowledge & tools to thrive with ADHD & AuDHD 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.

08/03/2026

A team of experts, inc clinicians, academics and “patients” have concluded that “ADHD overdiagnoses” will deny people the care they need.

In this 5-minute interview with LBC radio on Friday, I spoke about:
📣 how we fall off the cliff after diagnosis, with no support
📣 my health crash partly due to the co-occurring health conditions that the prescribing team was oblivious to
📣 how the health systems treat us in parts, when we need a whole-person support

They wanted to speak to me because I wrote an article for them earlier this year to say Wes Streeting was wrong.

I haven’t begun to talk about the dire state of mental health services within the NHS, how women’s agency is taken away when they are distressed, where there isn’t enough trauma-informed support. It upsets me that we don’t see what led the person there.

I’ll link the article I wrote in the comments. What has been your experience in the diagnostics and care system?

07/03/2026

Here’s a love note to other neurodivergent women who are going through a midlife identity awakening.

Wow, what a ride it has been! 🎢
You’re no longer the same person you were three years ago (it’s a good thing, if you think about the over-functioning, bone-deep exhaustion).

You’re now perhaps:
💕 Unstable in your outer life but sharp about what you’re done tolerating
💕 Like you’re “de-fitting” everyone else’s script (in image, role, love, or visibility)
💕 Done shrinking, done softening, done pretending
…but still a little ghosty to yourself 👀

Maybe you’re in the last 5% of a major identity jailbreak. Hang in there.
A very wise person once told me that the only way to ride this is through it, to find stability through change.

Translation: change is the only constant; you might as well get used to it.

Deep thoughts on this International Women’s Day. Have a good one!

04/03/2026

I don’t have all the answers but I finally found the missing puzzle piece in my health.

And I need your help.

To help me build this tool that supports our advocacy based on collective insights.

Tell me:
1️⃣ What’s the hardest thing to explain to your providers?
2️⃣ What words do you wish you had in appointments?
3️⃣ What would “joined-up care” actually feel like for you?

Write your answer in here pls: https://forms.gle/AKnJZkzXetvirSaKA

26/02/2026

I gave this talk yesterday while I was in low energy, luteal phase, fresh off stopping my new iron tablets, so I could prep for a health screening in 10 days. And somehow, it was the bravest thing I've said in a room full of GPs.

Neurodivergence and Menopause: Recognising hidden ADHD and Autism in Midlife Women

I'm not in menopause yet, but perimenopause (which can start in our 30s for autistic ADHD women) is brutal enough to warrant real support. Especially when you're juggling co-occurring physical health conditions, trauma, stress, and all the layers of being a complex human.

In 30 minutes, I brought in intersectionality, relational health, and the messy reality of standard treatments not working the way we expect for AuDHD women in this age group. The irony is that, in my case, to check whether I'm "healthy," I had to choose to have no energy.

Why can't we look at the whole human's health and make a call that way?

After my talk, GPs asked about medication, HRT, and supporting ADHD teens. I answered in the way I do inside my cohort - by helping them connect the dots others don't often think to.

I also brought my book, "Tip of the ADHD Iceberg" - my love letter to fellow ND humans navigating their own excavation - and told them about my AuDHD women's programme. It's been called "life-changing."

The programme helps women truly understand their neurotype,
- navigate hormones-neurobiology-medication-holistic health,
- restore their identity and empower their paths forward.
- work with our shadows, coping mechanisms, and all the emotional labour we've carried on our backs for decades.
Inside the cohort together. Where there's no hierarchy.

For now, I think I need to sleep for days. 💝
Drop a 💝 if this resonates.

Link to my book: https://amzn.eu/d/0dXX7Zx7

Our AuDHD women’s advanced practitioner programme: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

22/02/2026

This is what I will present to GPs next week at the Best Practice conference, directly from our AuDHD women survey.

Most of all, the words that rung throughout was, “Believe us”.

Nearly 400 autistic ADHD women trusted me with the data last year - to find our collective truths, to be your amplifier, and to hold this data with integrity.

I take this responsibility seriously and have more plans to share going forward.

Autism

17/02/2026

Neurodivergents who appear high functioning, but secretly struggle with their mental health.

There’s a large proportion of late-diagnosed adults who are autistic AND ADHD (AuDHD), who:
⚡ never had a developmental delay commonly seen in autism
⚡ have some really cool pattern spotting and dots connecting skills
⚡ adapted so hard, no one asks if they are ok
⚡ spent their entire lives wondering what and who they are
⚡ appears neurotypical until life gets tough
⚡ may struggle with mental health more than most

There are some who will always say being neurodivergent is a superpower.
Because when life kinda works for you, it does feel like you have them. 🦹‍♀️

But for many others, especially those of multiplied intersectional identities (who society isn’t exactly made for),
The strengths become harder to access when challenges become profound, especially during periods of internal and external change.

These changes (or transitions) can look like:
💝 leaving home for the first time
💝 the first and subsequent encounters of a traumatic experience
💝 puberty, postpartum, perimenopause, menopause and beyond
💝 parenthood
💝 health issues, big life changes (migration, relationship breakdown, marriage, etc, etc)

My point is, we have a “sensitivity factor” that becomes apparent when things change, and many of us need more support systems during these times.

Check in on your ND friends, colleagues, and partners.
Can you add to the list of life changes?

Understand ADHD, AuDHD deeper:
https://amzn.eu/d/0bB721j2

Autis

15/02/2026

Would I support de-diagnosing ADHD and autism?
No.

Diagnosis gave me language for decades of confusion.
📣 It replaced self-blame with self-understanding.
📣 It helped me see burnout, masking, and relational trauma clearly.
📣 It allowed me to build a life that fits my nervous system.

Even if I had to do my own research (literally!) to find out just what the labels (AuDHD) meant for me.

We can’t reduce this to prevalence graphs.
For many late-diagnosed women, the label is a relief. It explains years of being mislabelled with mood or personality disorders.

If diagnoses are rising, let’s ask better questions:
⚡ How many girls were missed?
⚡ How many traumatised women were pathologised?
⚡ How many people seek a diagnosis because it’s the only route to support?

Diagnosis isn’t the problem.
Fragmented systems are.
De-diagnosing people won’t reduce suffering. 😢

Better education, trauma-informed care, hormone-aware prescribing, and community support might. ❣️

If you influence healthcare, policy, or workplaces, how are you improving support before a crisis?

Let’s raise the standard of care, not remove the language that helps people understand themselves.

14/02/2026

Masking & Burnout
Three things happened yesterday which felt connected:

💝 I went on Riverside Radio yesterday to chat to the lovely Hazel Butterfield, who is the first person I’ve met who recited lines of what I wrote in my book back to me, we talked about masking, burnout, the biology of ADHD and AuDHD, how this impact women’s social relationships and all things neurodivergent women’s health 😍

💝 an AuDHD woman in burnout and shutdown messaged me to ask if I can recommend a retreat far, far away as she needs to take her respite away from all the demands that ruled her life… in her family

💝 a HR article on why so many Neurodivergent women in their 40s and 50s are leaving the workplace

What supports an AuDHD and ADHD women most isn’t increasing her productivity, but recognising that she needs a safe space to unmask, be herself, and be witnessed in her authentic nature and know that she is safe.

I’ve had to learn all these things the hard way, through navigating unsafe environments myself.

There comes a point in your life where peace matters more.

No room for office politics and incessant demands here.

What do you want in your life right now?

Happy V Day!

Updated: my book reached the Amazon bestseller list in Neurology, grab your copy here: https://lnkd.in/ed5cfNEX

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?

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