Lafaya Mitchell: Hypersensitivity & moving beyond labels

Women & ADHD

Katy Weber

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Episode 50 with Lafaya Mitchell.

"We have traits, not symptoms. This isn't an illness — it’s not like diabetes."

Lafaya is a licensed therapist with more than 20 years of experience working closely with families overwhelmed with socially, emotionally, and or behaviorally challenged children, and offering effective strategies and healing those relationships.

She is also the author of The Lafaya Way book series for parents of hypersensitive children, and you can find out more about all of the incredible work she’s doing at her website lafayaway.com.

In this interview, we talk about her philosophy on neurodiversity, as well as her journey to understand and work with her own hypersensitivity and the accommodations she uses for herself and for her daughter and the positive approaches she recommends for families.

Website: Lafaya Way

Instagram: @lafaya_way

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0:00.0	Hey friends, it's Katie here. Have you spent your whole life wondering why things feel harder for you
0:05.2	than they do for everyone else? Do you struggle with motivation even for the things you actually want to do?
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1:00.7	consult today. Hypersensitivity is hypersitivity. It doesn't matter what they throw on it,
1:07.2	what diagnoses, you know, what the traits are or whatever. If you have it, you have it,
1:11.2	right? So then we don't dismiss those kids out there without the dang diagnosis, because that's
1:16.1	that, that happens most often. That bothers me the most.
1:24.1	Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down. I've been looking back at so much of my life, school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens, and it has been nothing short of
1:45.5	overwhelming. I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience, and now I
1:50.6	interview other women who, like me, discovered in adulthood they have ADHD, and are finally
1:56.4	feeling like they understand who they are and how to best lean into their strengths, both
2:02.0	professionally and personally. The following is a review on the Apple podcast platform from
2:07.4	someone called Slightly Askew. It's entitled Life-Changing for the Misdiagnosed. I have spent
2:14.5	15 years attempting to navigate my life through the lens of an improper diagnosis.
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