EP. 224: ADHD, Autism and Making Friends with Steph West

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Steph West is the creator and director of Starfish Social Club, which teaches neurodivergent kids and teens how to make friends without masking or conforming. She’s on a mission to change the way we teach social skills, as well as the way we raise our neurodivergent kids in general. Steph was formally diagnosed with ADHD in 2021, which has made her even more committed to her students and helps them relate to her on a very personal level. Her goal with her work is never to teach autistic and ADHD students how to conform to neurotypical society, rather, it’s to help them develop dynamic social awareness and problem-solving skills to connect with their peers, while still preserving the traits that make them unique. Steph’s ideology serves as a great reminder that we can all learn how to move through social interactions more easily without sacrificing our authenticity, and I’m so delighted to share her valuable perspective with you this episode. Resources: Website: Facebook: Podcast:

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0:00.0	So, had she not connected the fact that this is what she talks about with the fact that
0:06.2	she had no friends?
0:07.8	No, that's the big disconnect.
0:11.0	When kids have social learning challenges, that's the disconnect.
0:15.5	So, I teach about the concept of reputation, which I've never seen another social skills
0:20.3	program that talks about that.
0:22.3	Your reputation is what other people think about you.
0:26.0	And it comes from the things that you say and the things that you do.
0:29.7	This is the very first lesson in my program.
0:31.8	It is free on my website.
0:34.1	It's the foundation of everything.
0:36.9	My students either have never heard of the concept of reputation and have no awareness
0:43.2	of it, or they can tell you about other people's reputations, but have no concept of their
0:51.2	reputation, or the next level is they are very aware that other kids think they are annoying,
0:59.2	but they have no idea why.
1:07.2	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
1:16.8	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of locations.
1:22.7	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or have ADHD?
1:28.9	And you know what we hear even less about?
1:31.8	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Wippy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Erin Brockovich,
1:43.4	Cher.
1:44.4	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD.
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