a baby in a striped shirt is covering his face with his hands . Alt: a baby in a striped shirt face palms, covering his face with his hand

ADHD grocery shopping fiasco continues...

This time i managed to order my supermarket delivery to my neighbours address instead of my own

#adhd #howtoadult

Love is in the air

Its that time of year I get to watch these pidgies get all soppy right from the comfort of my office chair

Photo of a white woman with gark scrappy hair in patterend jumper, leaning on a radiator. An orange cat is sat on the radiator looking up at her

Just some bed heads trying to warm our souls on the radiator

#nhs #dismissal #chronicillness

@nhsfife.bsky.social

@nhsfife.bsky.social

Sometimes I wonder which parts of life wouldnt have to take the hits, work? social life? recreation?

If women were taken more seriously...

If the refferals had been made when symptoms were raised...

If they were made when they said they were made....

@nhsfife.bsky.social

I'll take the win

but its not talked about enough how hard it is to balance life & illnesses

Organising & attending appointments is hard when youre already chronically exhausted

This is the 2nd time that I hadnt been reffered to a specialist, but was told I was

a woman in a pink robe is laying on a kitchen counter with her head on her hand . ALT: a woman in a pink robe is laying on a kitchen counter with her head on her hand .

This year i dropped my work hrs back so I could take better care of myself

Today I saw the specialist for persistent nosebleeds I notified my GP of in March 2024

Today I also found out that I have in fact NOT been on the waitlist for a different specialist I was told I was reffered to over 6mo ago

Update: it was a success, I managed the shopping, and now have fresh veg in the house, and freezer reserves have been stocked back up !

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Accountability post:

The ADHDer is yet to do a proper food shop in 2026

Maybe today will be the day...!

#adhd #whatyoufindeasyifindhard

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Miss. Diagnosis: A Systematic Review of ADHD in Adult Women The aim of this review was to explore the impact of living with undiagnosed ADHD and adult diagnosis on women. A systematic literature search was completed using three databases. Eight articles were considered relevant based on strict inclusion ...

📚 Research & evidence (for those who like receipts):

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
elifesciences.org/articles/104...

🧠 No academia without neurodivergent minds
theprofessorisin.com/2024/12/10/n...

🧬 Being neurodivergent in academia (ASBMB)
www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

In @natureportfolio.nature.com
's recent documentary we talk about women's experiences being diagnosed with ADHD as adults

Watch here: youtu.be/8atR9SGoVLA?...

Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The lexicon adapts to competing communicative pressures: Explaining patterns of word similarity Cross-linguistically, lexicons tend to be more phonetically clustered than required by the phonotactics of the language; that is, words within a langu…

⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure.

In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis

"Participants found diagnosis revelatory, their lives finally making sense; citing healing, improved self-esteem, and life feeling more worth living." 💯

It's was liberating! Great 📚
I'll keep commenting on it because it's so important as a scientist to reflect on the role of my diagnosis #ADHD 🧪🧐

👇 interview on collaborative (research 🧪) cultures

Thanks to @humboldt-foundation.de for funding my work on cooperative subsistence across cultures, w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social, and my network at @durhamdcerc.bsky.social: @mandolinguist.bsky.social @amandinevisine.bsky.social @chimpanzeve.bsky.social

Durham's Dunagree Lab continues to be the most wonderful workplace. Thank you to @sheinalew.bsky.social, @chimpanzeve.bsky.social, @fhillemann.bsky.social, @amandinevisine.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky for the surprise baby shower today 🥹

late diagnosed women with ADHD found diagnosis revelatory, their lives finally making sense; citing healing, improved self-esteem, and life feeling more worth living.

The adversities faced from delayed diagnoses were described from early childhood, through adolescence, and adulthood

late diagnosed women with ADHD “commonly reported internalising criticism & described disconcertingly low self-esteem; citing guilt, shame, and negative self-perception due to delayed diagnoses.

investigate the perspectives of 28 women with late-diagnosed ADHD.

Results starkly demonstrate the criticism and lack of support participants faced from society and medical professionals, illustrating the negative consequences of delayed ADHD diagnosis on quality of life and mental health.

We're super interested in this too, & are doing followup research to see how experiences may be similar or different across genders. We talk a bit about it in the podcast episode we did

I think zencaster has a transcript you can use to be able to skim to the relavent part
bsky.app/profile/chim...

A lot of disability is invisible

But it also goes deeper than that…

You might only see what we choose to show you

Society teaches us to hide the hard days
To keep pushing through
To prioritise productivity
To mask our pain
To feel shame about who we are
And to fear judgment for being different

@hkobayashiwood.bsky.social

Have you seen the reposts 🥰💔

Obviously I'm not a woman and it's much, much more likely that ADHD goes undiagnosed in women than in men, but this is exactly what it looked like for me as well. Diagnosis changed my life in a big way.

the amount of stories I read from women being diagnosed at age 30+ is honestly such a big failure and I'm glad they (and me!) are finally getting the support they need after this amount of time.
imagine having a broken wrist for 30 years and nobody noticing? that'd be unconsciable. alas!

Yep. There was a year in my childhood where a teacher I didn't get along w/ suggested I might have ADD. My mom took offense & I managed to do "better," but man. If I had been diagnosed then, my life would have been so different. I still struggle w/ self-worth, but the diagnosis did help at the time.

We did a podcast episode on it too, starts a bit slow discussing our methods, but gets much juicier as we talk about results and policy towards the end zencastr.com/z/Jr_wK-NO