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Women & ADHD

Tessa MacKay: Dyslexia, hyperrealism & neuroplasticity

Women & ADHD

Katy Weber

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

4.9685 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Episode 51 with Tessa MacKay.

"People with any kind of neurodivergence can just feel it in each other. It’s like sparks happen."

Tessa MacKay paints contemporary realism and large-scale hyperrealism portraiture and is based in Perth, Western Australia. 

Despite being diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD from an early age, she only recently started to embrace and work on the kind of quirks that are associated with ADHD in women.

We talk all about introversion and the emotional intensity of the creative process as a neurodivergent artist, as well as the inevitable imposter syndrome. 

And we also talk about neuroplasticity training and her lifelong journey to learn to read analog clocks.

Website: tessamackay.com

Instagram: @tessamackayart

 

 

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Transcript

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Hey friends, it's Katie here. Have you spent your whole life wondering why things feel harder for you

0:05.2

than they do for everyone else? Do you struggle with motivation even for the things you actually want to do?

0:10.6

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then I've got some exciting news. I've recently expanded the women and ADHD team by joining forces with a few

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1:00.7

consult today. For me, it's done more than just the ability to read clocks and decipher time

1:06.7

and what it's trying to teach me. But it's done a lot to my sense of self and my own self-worth as well.

1:13.6

I've got a lot more confidence and a lot more,

1:16.6

I feel a lot more karma going into the things that I have anxiety built around.

1:25.9

Hello and welcome to the Women and ADHD podcast.

1:30.0

I'm your host, Katie Weber.

1:31.6

I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down.

1:38.0

I've been looking back at so much of my life, school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens, and it has been nothing

1:46.6

short of overwhelming.

1:48.4

I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience, and now I interview

1:52.8

other women who, like me, discovered in adulthood they have ADHD and are finally feeling

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