Late Diagnosis, Masking, and Making ADHD Work for You with Dr. Jennifer Dall
Hacking Your ADHD
William Curb
4.8 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Hey Team!
My guest today is Dr. Jennifer Dall, a grief-informed neurodivergence specialist, ADHD coach, and educator with more than 25 years of experience. She’s the founder of ADHD Holistically, and blends her expertise in education, yoga, and grief work to build a focus on the whole person to create personalized, sustainable approaches for neurodivergent brains.
In our conversation today, we dig into how societal expectations and outdated research have kept so many women from being recognized as having ADHD. We explore the ways ADHD symptoms often present differently in women, the impact of masking, and the hidden toll of trying to “just keep up.” Dr. Dall also shares quick, real-world strategies for tackling the everyday hurdles that come with ADHD, from taming your to-do list to breaking free of shame around getting help.
If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at HackingYourADHD.com/238
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This Episode's Top Tips
1. Low-interest tasks like laundry, dishes, or paying bills often aren’t just one thing. They’re a series of micro-steps that might require you to switch gears, remember where you were, and re-engage. Each step is a potential stall point for an ADHD brain, especially if the task is competing with something more engaging.
2. Watch out for overstimulation shutdowns; ADHD brains can have trouble filtering out sensory input and mental noise. If we can learn to recognize when we’re starting to hit sensory or mental overload, it makes it easier for us to take care of ourselves without burning out.
3. Tasks like keeping track of everyone’s schedules, making sure the pantry’s stocked, or managing the emotional climate of a household often go unnoticed, but these tasks are still real work and they’re important. If we can give this work the weight it deserves, it can help us start seeing ourselves (or someone else in our household) as productive even when the results aren’t as visible or tangible as other tasks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, |
| 0:10.0 | heading into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey team, my guest today is Dr. Jennifer Dahl, a grief-informed neurodivergent specialist, |
| 0:20.5 | ADHD coach, and educator with more than 25 years of experience. She's the founder of ADHD |
| 0:25.4 | holistically and lends her expertise in education, yoga, and grief work to build a focus |
| 0:30.0 | on the whole person, and then to create a personalized, sustainable approaches for |
| 0:34.0 | neurodivergent brains. In our conversation today, we dig into how social expectations and outdated research |
| 0:39.8 | have kept so many women from being recognized as having ADHD. |
| 0:43.2 | We explore the ways that ADHD symptoms can often present differently in women, the impact |
| 0:47.8 | of masking, and the hidden toll of trying to just keep up. |
| 0:50.8 | Dr. Dahl also shares quick, real-world strategies for tackling everyday hurdles that |
| 0:54.8 | come on with ADHD, from taming your to do-list to breaking free of shame around getting help. |
| 0:59.8 | If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com |
| 1:04.5 | slash 238. All right, keep on listening to find out how we can go from shame to strategy. |
| 1:17.8 | So I'm so glad to have you on the show with me here today. |
| 1:21.4 | I'm really excited to talk about this topic because it's something that's been popping up into my just general ideas sphere a lot recently. |
| 1:26.6 | And this is the idea of that just why women are just |
| 1:30.2 | not being diagnosed with ADHD for so long. And it's something that I've been hearing other |
| 1:34.6 | podcasts about and things that's been just having general conversations with other people about |
| 1:38.3 | because it seems wild that there's this giant portion of the population that just |
| 1:43.3 | isn't being included in this conversation, |
| 1:45.6 | although that is really starting to get corrected now. |
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