How To Process The Grief Of A Late ADHD Diagnosis

ADHD Chatter

Alex Partridge

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Kat Brown is the author of 'It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult' and editor of 'No One Talks About This Stuff'. Chapters: 00:31 Early memories of feeling different 04:34 Kat’s masking journey 06:32 Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria 18:45 Kat’s ADHD mission 23:42 ADHD diagnosis realisations 31:43 Tiimo advert 35:21 ADHD masking 45:09 Why women have been let down 49:22 Consequence of life without identity 51:34 Our eternal pursuit of love 53:45 What would you say to the bullies 56:09 Kat’s ADHD item 58:51 Audience questions (washing machine of woes) 01:03:58 A letter to my younger self Visit Kat on Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/katbrownwrites/?hl=en-gb It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-Bloody-Trend-Understanding/dp/1472148703 No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Talks-About-This-Stuff/dp/1800182872 Get 30% off an annual Tiimo subscription 👉 https://www.tiimoapp.com/offers/adhdchatter Buy Alex's book entitled 'Now It All Makes Sense' 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-All-Makes-Sense-Diagnosis/dp/1399817817 Pre-order Alex’s latest book about Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria 👉 https://linktr.ee/adhdchatter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=9ffd8709-06df-444c-9936-c136fbd14d6e Producer: Timon Woodward Recorded by: Hamlin Studios DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kat, welcome back.
0:01.3	Thank you for having me.
0:02.2	I love what you've done with the place.
0:03.5	It's very festive.
0:04.0	It's a little busier than when you were last here about a year ago.
0:07.3	How have you been?
0:08.8	Lacking and tinsel, so I'm delighted to actually be overloaded by it today.
0:13.5	But yeah, extraordinarily well.
0:14.9	How about you?
0:15.6	I've been very good.
0:16.5	Very good.
0:16.9	I've been excited for our second chat.
0:19.6	It's been a little while.
0:21.6	Last time you were on, you told a very emotional story, which I'm sure many people will be able to relate to.
0:28.6	So perhaps we can start there.
0:31.6	What's your earliest memory of feeling different?
0:33.6	Were you bullied?
0:35.6	There's this really odd thing about difference or feeling different. Were you bullied? There's this really odd thing about difference or
0:40.6	feeling different is that in my experience you may not necessarily feel different but it becomes
0:47.5	evident that other people think that you are and so you're merrily going along on your path
0:53.1	you know la la la-la-ing through the world,
0:55.2	not a problem at all.
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