Hello podleters, I hope you're well. In this week's episode, I speak to content creator

and writer, Dami Kaleen. We discuss living with ADHD, getting diagnosed and how this is

impacted her timeline. I really hope you enjoy listening and as always please do rate

review and subscribe. Bye!

So Dami, tell me, when did you get diagnosed with ADHD?

So I was diagnosed just over a year ago, something that was January last year. Yeah, so I was diagnosed

with ADHD in a tentative type after having to speak with my psychiatrist and doing many,

many, many forms and waiting but yeah, and then I was able to start medication luckily a few months later than that.

And when did you first start to think that maybe it was ADHD that you had?

I don't think there was necessarily a specific moment where I realised I think there'd been a period of time,

especially during lockdown where I'd been watching TikToks as a lot of people were and I started seeing some videos come up about ADHD

and there were just a few things that felt a little bit close to home and I was like, hmm, this is a bit, this is a bit familiar.

I had a few people that I knew of personally that had been recently diagnosed and when they were speaking about their experiences,

I just, it was almost like a mirror and I thought this has to be something I need to look into.

The weird thing is that my sister was diagnosed with ADHD when she was nine years old but she was diagnosed with

combined type ADHD and I think there was more of a heavy focus on the hyperactive aspect of it.

So that was my view of ADHD so I'd never really considered before 2021 that I would have it because I just thought that's what ADHD looks like.

And you know, when I was trying to speak about it with my family, you know, that my mum was a bit skeptical or she was like, hmm, I don't think so because again,

her view was of what my sister had.

So we were all quite surprised actually when the diagnosis came back that I did have it.

It's really interesting you said that you realised you're seeing it through TikTok because I actually went to the GP and said,

look, I've got all of these reasons why I bit like you.

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