My ADHD Full Story - 694
The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance
Chalene Johnson
4.8 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Today, Chalene gets real and candid about her personal ADHD journey. You'll learn: about her childhood, how she was diagnosed, and how ADHD has impacted her marriage/business/relationships. Chalene hopes that others — going through similar experiences — will find comfort (and even relief) from her stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there. Thank you so much for joining me today on this edition of the Shalene show. I'm your host |
| 0:05.6 | Shalene Johnson and today we're talking about |
| 0:08.8 | ADHD and my personal journey to be diagnosed and also a little bit about my childhood my marriage and how it's |
| 0:17.5 | impacted my business and relationships |
| 0:20.1 | Thanks for tuning in I feel weird like creating an episode all about me |
| 0:23.6 | But I think by doing so it could really help you and I hope it does let's get to it |
| 0:30.5 | Well, let's start at the beginning my childhood. Let's face it raising a kid who has ADHD |
| 0:36.0 | Can be challenging and especially so for those of us who were raised at a time where number one |
| 0:41.0 | We didn't know a lot about ADD or ADHD |
| 0:43.9 | and then when it did start to take hold in the mainstream especially in the school systems where administrators and teachers were more aware of the signs and symptoms |
| 0:53.8 | They were particularly in tune with the way that it would manifest itself in boys and less so in girls |
| 1:01.6 | Girls are often misdiagnosed or not diagnosed because we tend to be people pleasers |
| 1:08.1 | Girls tend to find other things that they're really good at which can |
| 1:11.7 | Just grab someone's attention like I was great at art. I was really really good at art. I was |
| 1:17.9 | very |
| 1:18.8 | communicative child and so those things often would overshadow |
| 1:24.0 | The other things that might otherwise get picked up for boys |
| 1:28.1 | So number one we didn't think of girls as having ADHD also because |
| 1:33.6 | Boys you know their frustration and their racing thoughts it would manifest itself in hyper activity |
| 1:40.4 | Where with that's not necessarily true with all girls not some girls yes, but for me personally my thoughts would race |
| 1:47.6 | I might bounce my knee. I might bite my pencil. I might fidget and do things like that |
| 1:52.0 | But I wasn't like hyperactive in a |
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