EP. 201: Traumatic brain injury, Multiple Sclerosis and ADHD with Amanda Smith

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I first met Amanda Smith in my Your ADHD Brain is A-OK program, and ever since she has been bringing so much empathy and joy to the group that I knew I had to get her on the podcast. In Amanda’s own words, she is not your typical ADHD brain. She didn’t struggle with executive functioning or memory growing up, so when doctors discovered Amanda had a Multiple Sclerosis lesion on her prefrontal cortex, causing sudden-onset ADHD with working memory and cognitive impairment, she realized she was going to have to completely change how she had been operating for the past 32 years. Amanda’s life was turned on its head when she got the diagnosis –her life snow globe got kicked down the stairs, as she puts it– but her ability to find new ways to forge forward and move her life in the direction she wants it to go in is truly an inspiration. Resources Instagram: @dandylion_wishes

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0:00.0	You know, I look at it now and think this life would have been much easier if I would
0:06.0	have learned all these tips and tricks and hats and things when I was younger.
0:12.0	But you don't expect to just wake up one morning and just feel like a completely different
0:15.7	person.
0:18.7	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
0:31.3	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of locations.
0:37.2	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or have ADHD?
0:43.4	Can you know what we hear even less about?
0:49.1	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Wippy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron
0:56.6	Brockovich, Cher.
0:59.2	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD.
1:03.5	And that's exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart ass women.
1:09.2	I'm your host, Tracy Otsuka.
1:11.4	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
1:16.2	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is A-OK, a system that helps people like you figure
1:23.7	out what they should do with their life.
1:26.2	And we're here today to talk ADHD, your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how
1:32.3	you proudly stand out instead of trying to fit in.
1:36.4	I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest gifts.
1:40.8	And you know what?
1:42.0	I spy a happier life for you, too.
1:45.7	So without further ado, a shiny new episode is starting now.
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