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slash UK slash AI for people. Hello everyone and welcome to Fresh Take from What Fresh Hell

laughing in the face of motherhood? This is Margaret.

And this is Amy. Today we're going to be talking to Carla Chaconi. She is a Toronto-based freelance writer.

She's a mom. And the author of the book will be talking about today, Nowhere Girl, Life as a

member of ADHD's Lost Generation. Welcome, Carla. Hello. Hello. Thank you so much for having me.

So, Carla, the topic of this book is extremely timely because the percentage of women, ages 23 to 49,

who are newly diagnosed with ADHD as grownups, has nearly doubled over the last few years.

And you also had this experience. The book starts with you're being diagnosed

with ADHD at the age of 39. So tell us that story and how you got to that point. Yeah, so I was

diagnosed during the pandemic. And I think a lot of women were because we were all sort of trapped at

home without our usual day-to-day supports that we didn't know were even supports until they were gone.

That's well said, yeah. And also it kind of opened up access to therapy in a way that wasn't

like online therapy, right? So that's how I got diagnosed is I was very anxious. I had a two-year-old

at home. I was barely holding it together, barely sleeping, and I was like,

you know what? I think I should try therapy. I think maybe it's time. And the therapist, she didn't

know what I had was ADHD or the complex post-traumatic stress disorder or both. Was the

manifestation sort of the same? Yeah, the symptoms can be similar. Hypervigilance,

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