Annie Crowe: AuDHD, 2E & Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Episode 131 with Annie Crowe.
“I haven’t fixed my ADHD or Autism. I’ve simply embraced the chaos, and I’ve put a lot of systems and strategies in place to help me live.”
Annie is a late-identified Autistic ADHD disability rights lawyer and internationally recognized neurodiversity advocate based in Australia.
Annie is also a "twice exceptional" adult (or 2e meaning gifted and disabled) and we discuss the concept of 2e and how giftedness can mask and hide your disability growing up, leaving many kids undiagnosed and unsupported.
Between speaking engagements and producing her own wonderful podcast, Princess and the Pea, Annie is an Autistic Empowerment Coach and Neuroaccessibility Consultant working with the Australian Government, not-for-profit sector and more to provide her unique expertise on disability rights, neurodiversity, and public policy.
Annie & I talk about how an initial diagnosis of PTSD led to a dual diagnosis of Autism & ADHD. And we talk about how she distinguishes between the two as well as the symptoms of some chronic illnesses, and how she has learned to advocate for herself to get the support she needs, and now helps others do the same.
And we talk about hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and its links to Autism & ADHD.
⛔️ TRIGGER WARNING ⛔️ Brief discussion of sexual assault, eating disorders, and miscarriage, so if you’re not in a place to listen to these topics, you might want to skip this episode.
Website: www.anniecrowe.com.au ; Annie's Linktree
Instagram: @_anniecrowe
Books & Articles mentioned:
Pre-order Annie’s book: NeuroAccess: A Practical Guide to Building an Accessible World for Neurodivergent People
Worth It: A Journey to Food and Body Freedom by Katy Weber
Talks too much!: A candid tale of an adult ADHD diagnosis: The good, the bad...and the chaotic by Alana Reeves
Additional links:
NeurospicED podcast
The Neurodivergent Woman podcast
Annie's 2e Adult Support Group Waitlist
Annie's Autistic ADHD Empowerment Course Waitlist
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| 1:00.7 | consult today. If you're a gifted child, you learn from a very young age, whether this is |
| 1:07.5 | blatantly pointed out to you or just implied that your gifted mind is |
| 1:13.4 | incredible or valued or amazing. And a lot of us attach our identity to that. So the minute we |
| 1:20.7 | start to struggle, which everyone eventually does, it can be really earth shattering. |
| 1:31.4 | Hey. it can be really earth-shattering. Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. |
| 1:37.3 | I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down. |
| 1:43.5 | I've been looking back at so much of my life, school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens, |
| 1:51.4 | and it has been nothing short of overwhelming. |
| 1:54.1 | I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience, and now I interview |
| 1:58.6 | other women who, like me, discovered in adulthood they have |
| 2:01.8 | ADHD and are finally feeling like they understand who they are and how to best lean into |
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