EP. 173: The Difficulty of Diagnosing ADHD in Women and Girls with Dr. Grace Esan

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dr. Grace Esan, now a pediatrician in Indiana, grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, where it was the cultural norm to show up to parties and events fashionably late. It wasn’t until she moved to the United States, where time is taken much more seriously, that she realized she had difficulty with time management and procrastination that extended beyond cultural differences. Once Dr. Grace connected these traits to ADHD she also realized that ADHD was also responsible for her unique way of seeing the world. Since her diagnosis, Dr. Grace has been on a mission to create awareness around ADHD and destigmatize the diagnosis within the medical community, particularly for girls and women, who are often overlooked. Join me for a conversation with this wonderful doctor as she shares her diagnosis story, the workarounds she used to get through school, how she challenges the status quo in medicine, and so much more. References Instagram: @thrivewithdrgrace Website:

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0:00.0	A decrease in estrogen will mess with your attention span, we already know that.
0:06.2	And we also know that for a woman who is having active cycles, her estrogen levels will
0:13.2	rise and fall during that cycle.
0:16.4	And now we know that there are some women who have paid attention and now know that at some
0:22.0	point in their cycles, like going towards the periods, that the attention span is lower
0:29.0	and they're actually irritable.
0:31.5	So it's not the reason that if you have ADHD and that which already, you know, messes
0:39.0	with your attention and you have cycles, you probably want to schedule your appointments
0:47.0	according to how your attention is going to be.
0:56.6	I'm a citizen, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
1:06.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful times in a variety of occasions.
1:11.9	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or had ADHD?
1:18.1	And you know what we hear even less about?
1:23.8	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Woopy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Erin Brockovich,
1:32.6	Cher.
1:33.6	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD.
1:38.2	And that's exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart ass women.
1:43.8	I'm your host Tracey Otsuka.
1:46.1	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
1:50.9	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is AOK, a system that helps people like you figure
1:58.4	out what they should do with their life.
2:00.9	And we're here today to talk ADHD, your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how
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