episode 19: Learning Out Loud: ADHD Advocacy with Rach Idowu
Rach Idowu was diagnosed with ADHD Combined Type in January 2020, just before her London ADHD clinic closed down due to the pandemic. Undaunted, she started AdultingADHD on Substack and began to document her own personal experience and the research she would go on to do about her ADHD.
Since then, she has been featured in the New York Times, Inverse, and Mashable, and has been a featured panelist at Facebook, Ubisoft ComicCon London, and other organizations talking about ADHD in the workplace.
Along the way, she created a series of flashcards designed to help those with ADHD and supporting ADHDers to better understand details of ADHD that reflect the research she has engaged in over the years. You can find them at ADHDTraits.com.
Links & Notes
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- (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
- (03:14) - Introducing Rach Idowu
- (04:20) - The Pandemic Diagnosis
- (12:49) - About the Newsletter
- (13:53) - ADHD & Work
- (21:35) - Opening up about the diagnosis in the interview
- (26:07) - Advocacy & Influencers
- (28:30) - Tools of the Trade
- (30:09) - The Flashcards