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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.

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Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you are listening to the I Have ADHD podcast episode number 150.

I am medicated. I am caffeinated times two, and I am ready to roll. I am super pumped to introduce my guest to you today.

We will be speaking about the ADHD female experience all through the month of March, and today I have Yachini Pierce here with me to talk about motherhood.

Yachini is a friend of mine. I think we met on Instagram. She now teaches in my program, a class on parenting, which is super fun.

So she gets to add value to all of the members and focus, which is really, really, really fun.

And she is a late diagnosis woman with ADHD. Yachini is a mom of two amazing ADHD kiddos, and the host of the ADHD Love Parent Talk podcast.

She shares her wisdom on Instagram. You can find her at ADHD Love 2020, and she's here with us today to chat about all things motherhood and ADHD.

So Yachini, welcome. Thank you for being here, my friend.

Hey, Kristen. Thank you for inviting me. It's going to be fun.

It's going to be fun.

So I was telling you before we press record that I was, you know, planning in my brain, a solo show on motherhood and ADHD, but just felt like, you know what, this will be such a more valuable episode and just more interesting.

If we could just have a conversation about it. So you are a single mom with ADHD. I'm a partnered mom with ADHD. And so I think even just those two differences could be really important aspects of the conversation.

So would you just introduce yourself to us a little bit. Tell us just a little bit about your ADHD experience. Like tell me about that late diagnosis. I'd love to hear about it.

Yeah, absolutely. So again, I am Yachini, and I'm so excited to be here and share my story. I actually, I would say my story starts off with my children.

So my children are now, well, my daughter just turned 13 and my son is about to turn 11 years old. And we started this journey several years ago when my kids were, you know, very exciting and the daycare system and got kicked out a couple of times.

And I was just trying to as a parent figure out what was going on. And I just knew my kids were wonderful smart, loving kids, but there was just just extra going on that I just couldn't figure it out.

And so fast forward a few years, I actually took my daughter in first to get assessed. And that was a recommendation from my therapist.

And she was a family therapist. She met with my daughter and said, you know what, she might, it may be an ADHD thing or autism thing. And so I took her in.

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