Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.

I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.

Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.

Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to the I Have ADHD podcast.

I am medicated, I am caffeinated, I am regulated, and I am ready to roll.

Ready to roll, y'all? Let's go. How are you? How are you? I'm so glad that you decided to press play on this podcast.

Today, I know it was a decision, and I honor that. Thank you for giving me your time, your attention, just a little

saliva of your emotional capacity, your mental space. I appreciate it so much.

I hope you find this episode, and really just this podcast in general, to be so helpful to you, so uplifting to you.

I consider it a distinct privilege to be able to serve this ADHD community, and I just want you to know that I'm grateful that you're here.

I'm grateful to be here with you to have a platform, to have a place to share my thoughts and ideas. It's cathartic, it's healing for me, so thank you.

And speaking of thank yous, my goodness, my goodness, I have got to say all of your ratings and reviews, since I asked you for that as a birthday gift, they've blown my mind.

Thank you so much. You showed up. You showed up so many of you showed up with ratings and reviewing the podcast.

I just want to say thank you so much. I am full of gratitude. We've gotten like 50 to 100 new ratings in the last couple of weeks, and even a few of you reached out to me to say like, hey, I've been trying to rate and review, but whatever platform you're using doesn't work or Spotify is being weird, and I just like it's so nice of you to even just reach out and let me know that that's so kind.

So thank you. Thanks for making the effort. I know that as somebody with ADHD, you have really lacking executive function, and it takes a lot of energy to do something like rating, reviewing, whatever.

And so I'm just sending you a hug. I appreciate it. And listen, if you haven't done it yet, it is still my birthday month. So if you want to go ahead, rate this podcast so that we can climb the charts and help as many people with ADHD as possible.

Well, please go for it. I so appreciate it. Today, we're going to be talking about what it's like to receive a late in life diagnosis of ADHD and how to navigate it in the last four years of coaching.

I would say that some of the most tender moments that I've had as a coach have been with clients who are navigating a late in life diagnosis and helping them to process it and deal with all of the emotions involved in that.

So here's where we're going to start. I want to make it really, really clear that the term late in life is 100% subjective.

I have clients who are diagnosed in their 30s who feel that they were diagnosed late. I also have clients in their 70s as well. And I think like objectively, we can say that's pretty late.

So the range doesn't actually matter. It's like whether or not you identify, whether or not you believe you were diagnosed late in life. So the actual age doesn't matter because it's like I was diagnosed later than I wanted to be diagnosed.

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