Welcome to the Wave's Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and today we're also talking

about ADHD.

Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing that we can't get

off of our minds and today you've got me, Daisy Rosario, I'm a senior supervising

producer of audio here at Slate and I will be talking to Blair Postman.

Blair is a stand-up comedian and storyteller who has been touring with her show Lady ADHD.

In Lady ADHD, Blair shares with the audience what it's like to live inside the mind of

a woman with ADHD and also kind of tries to give you the experience of what it feels like.

I hope you'll come away tonight with a new appreciation for the kinds of things that

an ADHD bring can bring to the table, like for example, who cares that I burn the toast

again, man?

Because it happened I was over here working out the multiverse of who first even thought

of putting dough in a fire to make bread.

Have you had bread?

Now, I first became aware of Blair's show when I saw a listing for it here in the DC

region where I live and when I saw the title, I immediately just knew that I wanted to

know more.

I am someone myself who in early 2022 was diagnosed with ADHD, like officially diagnosed

by a big old hospital and went through the whole process and took lots of tests and

had to talk to lots of people.

And when I found out it didn't make sense, boy, did it make sense, but it also was confusing

to me because I didn't understand how I could make it all the way to my 40s without ever

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