The Waves: How ADHD Disorients Women
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate supervising producer Daisy Rosario is joined by stand-up comic Blaire Postman to discuss their journeys as women with ADHD, from receiving a diagnosis to the many ways it affects their everyday lives.
In Slate Plus, how Blaire navigated living with ADHD in the pandemic-era social media boom of all things ADHD content.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Tori Dominguez with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever thought, oh, this water is too wet? |
| 0:04.5 | Or this beach is too sandy. |
| 0:06.6 | My name is Christine. |
| 0:07.8 | And my name is Sandy. |
| 0:09.2 | And where the host of Beach to Sandy water to wet. |
| 0:11.5 | A podcast where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off the wall reviews on |
| 0:15.3 | the internet. |
| 0:16.3 | We find the funniest, real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings, matchmaking services |
| 0:21.4 | and trader joes, to caves, toddler beds, and spirit Halloween. |
| 0:25.6 | You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be set on the internet. |
| 0:29.2 | How else would everyone know that some caves don't have wifi? |
| 0:32.0 | We hear about the good, the bad, and that one time spirit Halloween sent someone a dildo |
| 0:36.1 | instead of a Halloween costume. |
| 0:37.8 | And believe it or not, we got to the bottom of it. |
| 0:40.5 | Join us every Wednesday wherever you listen to your podcast. |
| 0:43.5 | Beach to Sandy water to wet is brought to you by the Forever Dog podcast network. |
| 1:01.5 | Welcome to the waves, Slates Podcast about gender, feminism. |
| 1:04.7 | And today we're also talking about ADHD. |
| 1:07.9 | Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing that we can't get off |
| 1:11.2 | of our minds and today you've got me, Daisy Rosario. |
| 1:14.1 | I'm a senior supervising producer of audio here at Slate and I will be talking to Blair |
| 1:19.4 | Postman. |
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