Danielle Elliot: The rise in diagnoses: Why women? Why now?
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Episode 197 with Danielle Elliot.
“I would love to see the conversation move towards less questioning of women when they talk about having ADHD.”
Danielle is a health and science journalist, documentarian, and creator and host of Climbing the Walls, a new 6-part podcast series produced by Understood.org that releases April 9 (in 2 days!).
Danielle was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 36 amid a surge of ADHD diagnoses in women since the pandemic. In her podcast series, she travels the country speaking with mental health professionals and women with ADHD to get answers to her big questions, like “Why women?” “Why now?” — and are we as a society equipped to support these many recently diagnosed women?
In today’s interview, Danielle shares her own diagnosis story as well as what she discovered throughout this investigative journey. She shares what surprised her most, and where she feels the conversation around neurodivergence — especially among women — needs to be headed.
Website: danielliot.com ; https://lnk.to/climbingthewalls
Instagram: @understoodorg
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| 1:02.7 | Yeah, I would just love to see, I guess, and then the next stage of conversation is sort of for |
| 1:07.4 | societal level adjustments as opposed to expecting women to figure out the treatment |
| 1:13.2 | completely on our own and fix things, whereas it's like there's a lot of things around us |
| 1:17.3 | that could be fixed too. |
| 1:23.7 | Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. |
| 1:29.3 | I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down. |
| 1:35.5 | I've been looking back at so much of my life, school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with |
| 1:42.5 | this new lens, and it has been nothing short of overwhelming. |
| 1:46.2 | I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience, and now I interview |
| 1:50.6 | other women who, like me, discovered in adulthood they have ADHD, and are finally feeling |
| 1:56.4 | like they understand who they are and how to best lean into their strengths, both professionally |
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