Gina Marie Rodriguez: Giftedness, eccentricity & the science of hair
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Episode 146 with Gina Marie Rodriguez.
“I feel like I’m more ADHD than ever before because I’m just now learning how to fully be myself.”
Gina is a curly hair specialist, hairstylist, and educator in Northern California.
Like many of my guests, Gina was always moving from one idea to the next with lightning speed and was somehow able to hold everything together and appear successful after having children and experiencing extreme bouts of depression and anxiety and the soul crushing feeling of being unable to manage it all.
After beginning the Autism diagnosis process with her younger daughter, she started to question her own experiences and began to unravel a whole hidden interconnected web of neurodivergence in her own family.
Gina talks about her medication journey and the internal experience of what she calls “ADHD episodes.” We talk about the pressures of giftedness and never feeling like we’ve reached our potential. We also talk about unmasking after a diagnosis and embracing our eccentricities, and we talk about the science of hair and how being a hairstylist can actually be a great fit for someone with ADHD.
Website: thecultivatedcurl.com
Instagram: @gina_thecultivatedcurl
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Resources mentioned:
The Big Picture documentary
The Disruptors documentary
Life, Animated documentary
Your Brain’s Not Broken by Tamara Rosier
ADHD 2.0 by Halloween & Ratey
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| 1:00.7 | consult today. I felt like I kind of want to run around in this circle right now. Like I just, |
| 1:06.3 | I just want to just run around and do these like ridiculous go, ah, ha, ah, |
| 1:11.4 | like jump around back and forth, like do these weird things for no, |
| 1:15.5 | who knows what. |
| 1:16.4 | And I also kind of want to punch somebody in a face, but I know I shouldn't punch anybody |
| 1:20.0 | in the face, but I kind of want to. |
| 1:21.6 | And it was like this like, ah, and it was almost like painful and frustrating. |
| 1:29.6 | And it made me realize this is what my older daughter has been doing for a long time. |
| 1:35.5 | And especially, you know, children and I remember feeling this way, like, I'm going to pick on somebody. |
| 1:40.4 | I'm going to go start a fight, you know, and it's all that seeking dopamine. |
| 1:45.1 | And when I got back on the medication, it took me like three days for that to like quiet down. And I was like, |
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