EP. 258: The Power of Hope: Rewriting the ADHD Narrative

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Doing this kind of work, I often feel like I’m going up against an industry that sees ADHD only as a weakness. But not only is there science and research to refute these negative misconceptions, there's also you, the thousands of ADHD women that I've had the privilege of meeting. And I just know after meeting all of you that they're getting it wrong. Everywhere I go, there's another kick-ass entrepreneur who tells me that they have ADHD too. So the way I see it, I had to write this book not just for you and other women, but for the young girls who will follow us, because if they can grow up in a world that values their brilliant, albeit unique brains, their lives are going to be completely different. Writing this book is about more than just turning pages in a book, it's about changing chapters in women and girls' lives. I hope that my book doesn't just flip the script on ADHD, I hope that it totally rewrites the ending. So now I bring you the Audible introduction of my book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women.

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0:00.0	I stumbled on a large study conducted by scientists at the University of Toronto that found
0:07.0	42% of all adults with ADHD are in excellent mental health.
0:15.0	Excellent mental health?
0:18.0	Nearly half of us?
0:20.0	I was floored.
0:22.0	Why wasn't everyone talking about this study?
0:25.0	I began to wonder, what would happen if instead of pathologizing ADHD,
0:31.0	we looked at what these 42% of people were doing to live successfully with ADHD and
0:38.2	leverage their strategies for ourselves.
0:53.4	Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carvel, Wait a minute.
0:55.4	Where are the women?
0:57.0	Greta Gerwig, Lisa Ling,
1:02.0	Audrey McDonald, Simone Biles.
1:06.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans
1:09.4	in a variety of industries.
1:11.4	They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that now do you? You know
1:16.1	what else you don't hear about are the 43% of people with ADHD who are in excellent
1:22.4	mental health.
1:24.0	Why aren't we talking about them and what they're doing right?
1:27.0	I'm your host Tracy Atsuka, and that's exactly what we do here.
1:32.0	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, and now the author of my new book
1:37.3	ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of your ADHD brain is a okay
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