Sarah Wheeler: Tangents, curlicues & life lessons from a nomadic tribe [Top 10 Replay with Bonus Update]
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Episode 155 with Sarah Wheeler. [Replay].
Welcome back to my special Top 10 Replay series, where I’m re-releasing 10 interviews that really stood out to me and have stayed with me in some particular way — either because of the topic, or the conversation, or the feedback I received from listeners. For various reasons, I’ve chosen 10 episodes that I feel deserve a replay — so maybe you missed this one the first time around you’ll get a chance to hear it, or if you listened to it when it originally aired, I hope you’ll enjoy listening to it again.
This week I’m re-releasing my interview with Dr. Sarah Wheeler, which originally aired as Episode 98 in August of 2022. I chose this episode with Sarah because I think it’s probably one of the most entertaining interviews I’ve had — Sarah is hilarious and we had such a fun time. But she’s also really perceptive and thoughtful and a lot of what we discussed stayed with me, plus I got a lot of positive feedback and a lot of “me too!”s when this originally aired.
Bonus Update:
Make sure to stick around because, at the end of the episode, I check back in with Sarah to talk about what she’s up to now, including some of her recent writings about women and ADHD, which are linked in the show notes, and some more of her brilliant observations about ADHD and neurodivergence.
Website: https://linktr.ee/momspreading
Instagram: @thewheeler1
Sarah’s recent articles:
“I’m A Psychologist Who Specialized In ADHD. Everything I Knew About It Was Wrong”
“A new study shows the benefits of an accurate ADHD diagnosis — so why can't women get one?”
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| 1:02.5 | And so they had these totally, you know, genetically similar related groups that were living very |
| 1:08.1 | different lives. And what they did is they looked for the genetic |
| 1:11.5 | markers of ADHD, those DRD4 receptors or whatever they're called. And what they found was in the |
| 1:18.3 | agrarian group where they were all farmers. The ADHDers were low status. They were undernourished. |
| 1:26.3 | They were poor. But in the group that were still nomads, |
| 1:31.6 | they were the most successful, most kind of well-regarded members of that group. |
| 1:41.6 | 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, |
| 1:50.5 | and it completely turned my world upside down. I've been looking back at so much of my life, school, |
| 1:57.9 | jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens, and it has been nothing short |
| 2:02.9 | of overwhelming. |
| 2:04.2 | I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience, and now I interview |
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