Raegan Cotton: Facing young adulthood with ADHD

Women & ADHD

Katy Weber

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

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Episode 64 with Raegan Cotton

"Even after I was diagnosed, I still had so much doubt. I wondered if I was just using ADHD as an excuse to make myself feel better."

Raegan is 25 years old and lives in Denver. She works for the political advocacy non-profit New Era Colorado.

Raegan reached out to me because she is a listener of the podcast, but noted that a lot of my guests are in their 30s or older and she felt she could offer an interesting perspective on what it’s like to be facing ADHD in early adulthood at this particular moment in history.

Raegan was born in 1996, so she is literally right on dividing line between Millennial & Gen Z, and we talk about the various impressions and stigmas that were held around ADHD and mental health as she was growing up and how they might differ from older generations.

We also talk about what it’s been like to get this diagnosis during the pandemic as a young adult, as well as the various ways ADHD is still being overlooked and dismissed in girls and young women.

I really appreciated and enjoyed Raegan’s perspective and I’m sure you will, too.

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1:02.3	I tried to talk to my mom about it and like, bless her heart. Like she looked at me and was like,
1:07.7	well, look, like she, you know, she looked at me. She looked at my little brother and she was like, you are not the same. Like, he's, he's got ADHD. Like, he checks all the boxes.
1:16.6	Like, yep. And she was like, I think you're just really depressed and anxious.
1:25.3	Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. The following is a review on the Apple podcast platform in Australia from a listener called Sensitivity is Good. It's called A Weight Off My Shoulders. Thanks a million, Katie, for helping lift a huge weight off my shoulders. Your excellent podcast
1:45.3	has lifted my spirits immensely. Hearing the conversations with ADHD women of all ages has
1:51.0	stopped my self-judgment in its tracks and got me giggling along as I identify with the funny
1:56.1	things we all seem to do. The biggest relief of my late ADHD discovery is that I finally have the answer to
2:01.8	a question that's nagged me for 30 years. A friend once asked me, how can someone so talented
2:07.6	still be struggling? And after accepting the compliment, I thought to myself, yeah, how come?
2:12.7	The work you're doing here is gold. Well, what a lovely sentiment. Thank you so much. I am so glad you found this podcast
2:19.4	and that these conversations have been helping to alleviate some of that self-judgment. I asked
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