Kate Spicer Dissects Late ADHD Diagnosis

Kate Spicer is a lifestyle journalist who has written for Vogue, the Sunday Times, The Times, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.

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00:00 Trailer
01:21 You have a very amusing nickname for your Brain. What is it? And why do you call it that?
05:14 Have your family accepted your diagnosis?
14:10 Internal narratives leading to dark places
20:49 Relationships
24:59 What’s been your biggest realisation since your diagnosis
28:35 Were you worried ADHD medication would numb your creative mind?
30:14 Kate’s experience with hallucinagentics
37:07 Are you sensitive to criticism?
47:13 Your ADHD item
51:06 Do you think there’s a link between ADHD, RSD and the pursuit to be beautiful
52:55 Can you - for the benefit of our male listeners - just briefly describe what being undiagnosed ADHD is like at school from your perspective as an adolescent female trying to find her way?
56:45 What do you think are the 3 most confusing attributes about yourself that someone who doesn't understand ADHD would have trouble understanding about you?
01:01:35 Your most impulsive thing

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