Welcome to the waves, Slate's Podcast about Gender Feminism, and today we're also talking

about ADHD.

Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing that we can't get off of our minds and today you've got me Daisy Rosario.

I'm a senior supervising producer of audio here at Slate and I will be talking to Blair Postman.

Blair is a stand-up comedian and storyteller who has been touring with her show Lady ADHD.

In Lady ADHD, Blair shares with the audience what it's like to live inside the mind of a woman with

ADHD, and also kind of tries to give you the experience of what it feels like.

I hope you'll come away tonight with a new appreciation

for the kinds of things that an ADHD brain can bring to the table.

Like, for example, who cares that I burned the toast again, man?

Because it happened, I was over here working out the multiverse

of who first even thought of putting dough

in a fire to make bread.

Have you had bread?

Now, I first became aware of Blair's show when I saw a listing for it here in the DC region where I live and when I saw the title I immediately just knew that I wanted to know more I am someone myself who in early 2022 was diagnosed with ADHD, like officially

diagnosed by a big old hospital and went through the whole process and took lots of tests and had to talk to lots of people.

And when I found out, it didn't make sense. Boy, did it make sense? But it also was confusing to me because I didn't understand how I could make it all the way to my 40s without ever noticing.

Well, as I have learned, it turns out it's incredibly common for women to not get diagnosed

in their youth, but to get diagnosed later in life if they do have ADHD.

And this is for a number of reasons that Blair and I will get into today, including the fact that

apparently the way that ADHD presents in women is not exactly the way that people picture

it when they're thinking about a child.

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