SIO493: Kids with ADHD/Autism Struggle with Mental Health. New Study Says Maybe It's the Stress of Being Different
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Previously, the leading theory was that kids with autism and/or ADHD had mental health struggles due to emotional regulation issues or other direct elements of their neurodivergence. But what if it's actually that they have to deal with more stressors than the other kids? Dr. Jenessa Seymour, fellow haver of ADHD, is here to break it down for us!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to serious and queer's only. This is episode 493. I'm your host, Thomas |
| 0:18.0 | Smith, and got a really good one for you today. Actually, two, |
| 0:22.2 | two-parter. I've often joked, and it's barely a joke, that being a listener of this show or |
| 0:27.6 | pretty much any of my shows, if not a diagnosis of ADHD, is certainly indicative. So I know |
| 0:34.2 | this applies to so many of you. And if not you, someone you know, someone you love, your kids maybe. |
| 0:38.4 | And there's been some really good research recently on ADHD and autism, probably more on the |
| 0:44.6 | autism focus, but it covers both, as we'll get to, about what's causing negative mental health |
| 0:50.8 | outcomes with kids with autism and ADHD. Because I think a lot of people assume that it's just something that might correlate due to, |
| 0:58.9 | you know, emotional regulation problems. |
| 1:01.1 | But what if it's actually just what it's like to go through the world with these conditions? |
| 1:06.5 | And what if it's actually more about how these folks are having to deal with the world and less about anything like inherent? |
| 1:13.2 | And as a dad of kids who probably all have some sort of something, we'll see. |
| 1:19.3 | Who knows? |
| 1:19.9 | This is very relevant to me. |
| 1:21.1 | I think it'll be relevant to you as well. |
| 1:22.5 | So Dr. Janessa Seymour is going to take us through this. |
| 1:25.8 | And we are both folks with ADHD. |
| 1:27.7 | And Janessa is AudiHD as a label I think folks use these days. And we're going to talk a lot about |
| 1:32.9 | like what it's like to have these things, one or both of them, what it's like to move through |
| 1:36.6 | the world with them, and this research, which is really good. So this is a lot of fun. It's going to |
| 1:41.6 | be very insightful. I think we're going to learn a lot. So with that being said, please support the show. Patreon.com slash Serious Pod if you'd like to hear more conversations like this and keep the show going. |
| 1:49.3 | Thank you so much to those who support you are the lifeblood of this little podcasting enterprise that I do. |
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