365. The BEST advice for managing ADHD in your 20s ft. Chris Wang
The Psychology of your 20s
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult can feel like both a relief and a reckoning. Suddenly your past makes so much more sense… but now you’re faced with learning a whole new way of managing your brain, your time, your relationships and your self-worth.
In this episode, I’m joined by Chris Wang, founder and CEO of Shimmer, who was diagnosed with ADHD at 28. Together we unpack what ADHD really looks like in your twenties, including:
- The three ADHD subtypes and why women are so often missed
- How late diagnosis can completely rewrite your identity (in a good way)
- Why traditional productivity advice often fails ADHD brains
- The role of urgency, novelty and accountability
- What actually is rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD)?
- What ADHD–ADHD relationships can look like vs ADHD–neurotypical dynamics?
If you’ve ever wondered, “Do I just suck at being an adult, or is my brain wired differently?”, this episode is for you.
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| 0:38.6 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Jemma Spike and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:45.5 | through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean |
| 0:51.1 | for our psychology. |
| 1:03.2 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. New listeners, |
| 1:07.7 | old listeners, wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we of course break down the psychology of your 20s. |
| 1:12.6 | Today, we're going to talk about ADHD. |
| 1:15.7 | Getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult can feel like both a revelation and a bit of a |
| 1:22.6 | reckoning. |
| 1:23.1 | It's this moment when everything about how you've moved through the world probably makes a lot more |
| 1:28.7 | sense, but you also now have to learn all these new ways to manage. That is exactly the experience |
| 1:36.3 | of today's guest, Chris Wang. She's the founder of Shimmer. It's an ADHD coaching platform |
| 1:41.5 | that has helped thousands of adults better understand their brains. |
| 1:45.5 | And she herself was diagnosed in her 20s after years of feeling like she was kind of doing |
| 1:52.6 | life wrong. And the thing is, her story is actually not a unique one. I've heard from |
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