Latest / Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD / Let’s Talk ADHD In Girls (SUPER INTERESTING)
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- 0:06Okay, so guys, welcome back to another Saturday live interview.
- 0:10These are going pretty cool. I think this is an answer must
- 0:12be that the sixth one we've done or seven, when we've done this,
- 0:14we call. But anyone on the podcast and
- 0:17all these are a little bit different to the usual podcast,
- 0:18but I hope you enjoy these interviews.
- 0:20Anyway, I feel like the podcasters are going to get this
- 0:23way more than the people watching it visually, but I
- 0:25think it's still still works and every watching on Instagram,
- 0:27Facebook would a PO. So today I'm talking to somebody
- 0:31I know and I'm not entirely sure.
- 0:32I will get into it a little bit with how I know this girl, but
- 0:35I'm not. Entirely.
- 0:36Sure. I think I think I know how I
- 0:37know you but we connected on Facebook over politics.
- 0:42I think we very much have the same kind of ideology of
- 0:45politics. I think that's how we kind of
- 0:47gel. This is Margaret and marjana
- 0:49actually explain who you are what you do and that was super
- 0:53cool. Yes.
- 0:55I'm mad at Tommy. I'm 24.
- 0:57I'm from first in Europe in North Wales.
- 0:59Unfortunately. For now, I live in London.
- 1:01I work as a journalist present. I do social media just a bit of
- 1:05everything, really. In the media industry.
- 1:07And yeah, it keeps me busy. But I love it.
- 1:10It's fun. You know, you get paid to talk,
- 1:11so, can't complain that. So what kind of what agencies
- 1:16and stuff do you work for, or what kind of networks?
- 1:18Do you work for? I've worked for a bunch of
- 1:21different light National Publications.
- 1:23I hope the music a I've looked at reach.
- 1:25I've worked for Global. So, like with heart radio and
- 1:28stuff, and then I also, now manage social media for dream,
- 1:31boys, which there's one who don't know, it is the biggest
- 1:35male. Think like company the whole of
- 1:37the UK. So that is not what I can
- 1:40complain about whatsoever. And then who else do work for
- 1:44the, huh? So just gives you.
- 1:46So it's a bit of a mix that's cool.
- 1:50And so and the reason I wanted you on here, so people who are
- 1:52watching right now and I may not know who my dad is.
- 1:55I'll leave links for all social media down below as well.
- 1:57So you can hear. And also anyone listening on the
- 1:59podcast will be in the show notes.
- 2:01So you guys can check out on social media, but we were having
- 2:04a conversation about stuff and you said you Like ADHD, right?
- 2:08And then I was like, whoa, this is so cool that you said is
- 2:11like, kind of like a severe ADHD, like a proper kind of like
- 2:15a really grips you in your life. And so I really wanted to just
- 2:18ask, you know, I'm just kind of I'm going to skip you.
- 2:21There's no script for this video.
- 2:22Use idea of scriptures, but I wanted to do this one a bit more
- 2:24laid-back as we both know if we lie and, you know, God with
- 2:26kamri all that. And I felt like it would be
- 2:28really cool to just kind of just shoot it naturally.
- 2:31So in terms of like working in that kind of super The tech
- 2:37based media environment where like it's like, like things
- 2:41going on all the time. What on Earth is your day to
- 2:44day? Like with ADHD?
- 2:45Well, to be honest you'd think it wouldn't go hand-in-hand with
- 2:50it because there's so much to keep up with but it actually is
- 2:52what stimulates me to be able to do this work.
- 2:55I could never ever see myself doing anything else because
- 2:58there's so much variety. I'm always doing something
- 3:01different like be that filming a comedy sketch to interviewing a
- 3:05celebrity. They're going to parties and
- 3:06events and it's so stimulating that it actually keeps me in
- 3:12control in a some way to keeps me entertained.
- 3:14Just something I find really hard in any job.
- 3:17That's a bit menial. And I've like been sacked and
- 3:20quit so many jobs that didn't like satisfy that need, right?
- 3:25Because so like in terms of like, you know, because with
- 3:31ADHD because it's so I have comorbid condition.
- 3:33I have Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD OCD, Dyslexia altogether, lovely
- 3:37combination of nonsense and and it does kick my butt a lot of
- 3:42the time like they today and I want to things that ADHD does is
- 3:45I start this one thing. I'm like I'm going to end this
- 3:47video. Then I'm also going to learn
- 3:49Chinese. And then I'm also going to
- 3:51reboot this computer and then I'm also going to finish
- 3:54creating the thumbnail. And I'm also going to write this
- 3:56blog post and I've got like several different things on the
- 3:58go any one time because that's how I have to be a, you the
- 4:01same. Like, what's it?
- 4:02Like, I'm exactly the same. Oh my.
- 4:05My God, but before I was officially diagnosed, right?
- 4:09So that was maybe six months ago now.
- 4:10So I've got my whole life without any diagnosis or help
- 4:14just thinking that's how normal brains were turns out.
- 4:17They're not. So I found it really hard to
- 4:20manage with everything. I'd be the same, like, writing
- 4:23an article, but then remembering, oh, I need to do
- 4:25that email or I need to go and make a coffee.
- 4:26Oh, actually, I need to pee. I just couldn't concentrate on
- 4:29anything, but meds have really helped me with cracking down
- 4:32with that. I'm much better at sticking to
- 4:34like kind of Lists, and I make little list in my head.
- 4:37Be that like all you need to go for a shower.
- 4:39Then you need to brush your hair.
- 4:41Then you need to have a cup of tea.
- 4:42Like, that's just how I function and it helps, you know, dude,
- 4:46that's super funny. You know it, when you said that,
- 4:48it reminded me of that scene in friends were Chandler's, dating
- 4:52his ex-girlfriend through the computer and Phoebe's I can just
- 4:55go for a shower. No, you need to get dressed,
- 4:57know you need some coffee and it's like, just so many things
- 5:00going to answer this like bow and make that was, that's a
- 5:02really good kind of explanation for anyone.
- 5:04That knows what I'm talking about.
- 5:05Like, give this video a thumbs up.
- 5:07I'll have this video and like it because friends is life for
- 5:10people who don't know, but so much.
- 5:14And everyone always used to tell me.
- 5:16I'm exactly like we be like, yeah, I mean, she's quite like
- 5:20erratic and all over the place and quirky as the lights of
- 5:23pony. But I mean, she's better epitome
- 5:25know me. Yeah.
- 5:26I know, she suffered. She did Phoebe's definitely out
- 5:29there. I mean, she just said, comes up
- 5:31with the most horrendous things and I'm thinking, oh, my
- 5:33goodness, this is awesome. But then again, show he's also A
- 5:36bit of a loose cannon with and conversations concerned.
- 5:39So here's a question. So I also take medication to
- 5:43help with my ADHD and my moods as well because with Asperger
- 5:47syndrome being comorbid, you have this kind of like, I love
- 5:51structure and routine, but then I also have a tendency to put
- 5:54completely go all over the place and Scotty because it ADHD.
- 5:57So this is like, really does like, you know, battle against
- 5:59each other. So I'm on medication for that.
- 6:01Now, I take a a medication, which is prescribed sometimes
- 6:05for A lot of the time for antidepressant it's called
- 6:07Duloxetine, but it's actually prescribed a lot of times people
- 6:10that's Burger syndrome and ADHD. So and that has really helped me
- 6:14calm down so that I can focus on things and like I'm not like
- 6:18hitting my head anymore. I'm not breaking my hands and
- 6:20stuff and you know life isn't like a desperate like ah, so if
- 6:24you don't mind I was going to ask you what kind of medication
- 6:26you're taking and how are you finding it?
- 6:28How long have you been on it? But yes, I'm on two different
- 6:32kinds. I'm on an antidepressant for my
- 6:34anxiety. That one is relevant.
- 6:37Remember what was billed as the telegram and then that's helped
- 6:41me a lot with that. But bloody hell, isn't that a
- 6:42rocky road getting onto in the first place?
- 6:46I have that before I had it. I'm sorry, but you go first, you
- 6:50go first. No.
- 6:51No, I have had that I have had since I know from I haven't
- 6:54before ages ago, but coming off, it was even worse.
- 6:57And so I never wanted to double again, but it was only the
- 7:00People do react differently to it.
- 7:02So it is kind of like a, you have to trial and error.
- 7:04I like your Sykes will tell you like, you know, you try certain
- 7:06things to see what works for you.
- 7:08What doesn't work, right? So I just thought I'd say, yeah,
- 7:10I understand. So I didn't mean to interrupt.
- 7:13I tried like, you are trying to do things before eventually
- 7:16settling or not, because some things do not work for me.
- 7:18I've got that thing xiety. And then for ADHD, I dabbled on
- 7:21a few different things. Like I'm sure thing all then,
- 7:23but it ended on L Vance. I think it's pronounced and that
- 7:26one has helped me so much. I'm on, I think nearly the
- 7:28highest dose of it. Might go up again to the highest
- 7:31dose of it. But yeah, it was brilliant to
- 7:34start with. I was like in be sleeping and
- 7:35stuff, but now it's probably working.
- 7:38It's like it's like you feel a high or a buzz or anything.
- 7:42It's just, you notice yourself doing things.
- 7:45You never could before and it's like, this is what life is like,
- 7:49for other people. Isn't that nuts?
- 7:51I'm able to myself, I want to do this thing and then I actually
- 7:54go and do it. You know, it's funny when the,
- 7:58the first week I Had my medication.
- 8:03I was it was the first time ever.
- 8:05I was able to sit down and eat food without like having to get
- 8:08up and walk around or do anything.
- 8:10You know, I just sat down and ate food and my girlfriend was
- 8:12like is everything. All right, like yeah.
- 8:14I just we're just enjoying sitting down, you know, and it
- 8:17was so bizarre like a, you're absolutely right things that you
- 8:20you never even done before which you just simple things but
- 8:23because of the way you bring operates, it kind of like is
- 8:25restricted from doing things but the medication helps tone that
- 8:28down like a lot of Like this is going to be questioned.
- 8:31Like it. Look, people aren't offend.
- 8:32Some people are like ball medication and other people that
- 8:35are kind of like not for medication, right?
- 8:37And I'm kind of like, look, I try and do the most part I can
- 8:40without medication but there's a certain point in your life where
- 8:42you say, well, okay, to me. Anyway, medication has to be an
- 8:46answer here because I'm just completely I'm losing it, right.
- 8:48I'm like, I'm not able to kind of like stable myself day-to-day
- 8:51and so that's kind of like, where I got to but a lot of
- 8:54people kind of their kind of like, oh no medications like
- 8:57suppressing, you who you are and all this kind of stuff and I get
- 9:00They're outcry, right. I get what they're saying.
- 9:01I get like, you know, if you're if you're, you know, a crazy
- 9:04creative person and you want to do all this kind of like
- 9:06craziness, which is fine. But then again, you are the
- 9:10person who is living it. And one thing I don't like is I
- 9:12don't like people like like medication shaming at if you've
- 9:15heard of this where people like pill shame people.
- 9:17So the shame people and the fact that like, I can't believe
- 9:19you're taking medication and I get people's concerns with
- 9:22medication. Of course, you're putting
- 9:23foreign stuff in your body. It's going to be different but
- 9:27you know, and I just wanted what your tea, cause I know if you've
- 9:29heard anything about it. People who like pill, shame and
- 9:31stuff. I think those people to get in
- 9:33the bin. It's not that brave.
- 9:38And if it's not their situation, their life, why do they care
- 9:41about what you do to make yourself better without it.
- 9:44I was like an absolute potato at times.
- 9:46Especially with the anxieties that was sprinkling.
- 9:51It was correctly. I've been sick because of my
- 9:53anxiety, like, daily. I couldn't breathe, my vision
- 9:55would go blurry. Like medication says people's
- 9:58lives. And I think the people who
- 9:59killed A shame me to like get a bit of a grip on reality,
- 10:03really? And realized how helpful it is.
- 10:05Some people like not everyone know, but don't shame those who
- 10:08do take it because it is incredible, and it's brilliant
- 10:12science. That's been developed for years
- 10:14and years and years to improve people's quality of life.
- 10:17And what what's the bad side of that?
- 10:19Like, I don't I think I've had like, he cares.
- 10:24Yeah. Sorry, to current current.
- 10:27My friends would never ever issued diagnosis of anxiety,
- 10:30depression, like bipolar ADHD. A lot of my friends had issues.
- 10:34They never ever thought about going to speak to someone about
- 10:38it. Getting diagnosed or ever even
- 10:40considered medication until I started talking about me doing
- 10:44it, but I feel like if people carry on with that attitude is
- 10:48never going to help anyone. So many people don't get the
- 10:50help they need. So, Hundred percent, I think,
- 10:54like, one of the, one of the kind of the, the issues, then
- 10:58that would probably present it is that the medical industry in
- 11:01America works way different than it does in a lot of other
- 11:04Western Hemisphere type of countries where you have social
- 11:08care and socialized medicine where, you know, we have an NHS
- 11:12which is fantastic and truly one of the greatest triumphs of our
- 11:15entire kind of like country. And our medication is there, but
- 11:20to help us get better, right? But in Because there's a
- 11:23slightly unusual kind of tone to the medical industry where you
- 11:27pay a premium and a capital for health insurance.
- 11:32And then the drug companies are allowed to advertise drugs, so
- 11:36they can pretend that like something they make you need
- 11:40because again, their business. They're trying to create, you
- 11:43know, profit and their profit margins.
- 11:45So a lot of the time, what a lot of people say in this, what I
- 11:48hear back from the community is that big farmer is what it's
- 11:51called, kind of Push drugs on people to take them even if they
- 11:56don't want to because big Pharma is trying to make a profit and I
- 11:59think that's a lot of that what this argument kind of stems
- 12:02from. So, so anybody's watching or
- 12:03listening in America versus the UK.
- 12:05We have a proper different Health System.
- 12:07It's completely different. It's literally set up to help.
- 12:09You doesn't cost you anything and it's, it's there for it's
- 12:14there to help you get better not to sell you anything.
- 12:17Basically. It's also a lot harder to get
- 12:20your hands on any sort of controlled drugs here.
- 12:23Like the process, is it takes to get diagnosed and put on pills
- 12:26for ADHD. It takes months even years.
- 12:28Sometimes, whereas in America, they will just truck ADHD bills
- 12:32to any kid, who's hyperactive is so different, how it works.
- 12:35One of my best friend's is trying to get diagnosed right
- 12:37now for it. And yeah, she lived in America
- 12:41for a few years, as a trial, and they were like, throwing it out
- 12:44to her little brother who does not have ADHD, but she here in
- 12:47the UK, is still not diagnosed. It's crazy.
- 12:51Yeah, it's it. It is crazy.
- 12:54I think and it's all to do with like, you know, they got the FDA
- 12:56in America and we've got our kind of like whatever the hell I
- 12:59was version of it is actual Food and Drug Administration here and
- 13:03there's different standards for different people.
- 13:04But and I guess that was just interesting and I just wanted to
- 13:06put that out there because it was, it was interesting suffix.
- 13:08So in terms of ADHD and like daily life, what would you say?
- 13:11The biggest struggle? I mean, you know, you could say
- 13:14medicated on non-medicated. What would you say?
- 13:16The biggest drug of you found in in life, you know, young girl
- 13:20doing her stuff in life and she has a HD this kicks my butt
- 13:24every day. What would you?
- 13:25What would it be? This thing is, there's a lot of
- 13:30things but I never knew that's what it was.
- 13:32Until like, a year ago essentially to look back at it.
- 13:35I'm like, it really did affect me, especially in concentration
- 13:40and just, like, I don't know how to describe it, but it would
- 13:43always need to be like the center of attention.
- 13:46It wasn't intentional. I just really like it, put it on
- 13:50the show and being funny. My young age.
- 13:52I would always just kind of if something was boring in class.
- 13:55I would have to put on a little a little show-off.
- 13:58Something that the teacher or do something to catch, everyone's
- 14:01attention. And I did not stop talking ever
- 14:03and that was just who I was. So it was, I just had that
- 14:06reputation of being that girl who just chats Non-Stop and his
- 14:09bloody annoying. So that, yes, it's annoying.
- 14:12It's affected me. But I kind of liked that about
- 14:15me as well. But the concentration thing is
- 14:19the one that still affects me mainly today even with a
- 14:22diagnosis because it's like, people always tell you don't
- 14:26know when you like are, these are the symptoms of my
- 14:28Conditionally. Got my I've got that too.
- 14:30It's not the same though, is it? It's not the same.
- 14:32You not being able to like, concentrate on reading.
- 14:34A reporing book is not the same as me not being able to write an
- 14:38email that will take me 10 seconds because I just
- 14:40physically can't do it like that.
- 14:42It's very different. It's so annoying pick the little
- 14:45symptoms and try to like appeal. It's their life is like no
- 14:48dialing. It's not.
- 14:49Yeah, I hear this. I hear the same thing, when
- 14:52people say like how everyone's a little bit autistic like we
- 14:55talking about you either are on the autism spectrum when you're
- 14:58Like, you know Ivan's, got a little bit of ADHD.
- 15:00So well, you have got any deal. You don't be so ridiculous.
- 15:03It's like, probably one of my biggest pet peeves.
- 15:05Is that people say? Oh God.
- 15:08Yeah. Everyone's, everyone's a little
- 15:09bit autistics. Like, what if you talking about,
- 15:11like, have you any idea, the struggles of day-to-day like,
- 15:14like, like you just point out brilliantly, you know, something
- 15:17that is meaningless that they take for granted, like picking
- 15:19up the phone called the doctor to have it, you know, it's
- 15:22anxiety and the ADHD, like, you just like, freaking out.
- 15:26Like, I can't do this, phone call on it, and you've tried,
- 15:28Ride 16 times. And you know, and I'll do it
- 15:30later. It's crazy that people just
- 15:33don't understand it. And it almost it's kind of like,
- 15:35they belittle your condition. They kind of say, well, yeah.
- 15:37Well, that's not, it's not as it's not an issue, just get on
- 15:40with it. It's like, well, that's not
- 15:41good. It's not going to help, is it?
- 15:43Yeah, they think it's not as much of a big deal as it is
- 15:46because, you know, there's they've they're seeing us coping
- 15:49with it every day and probably didn't they wouldn't know that
- 15:51we have anything going on if we hadn't told them.
- 15:54And then because I've told them, I'm like, oh these are the
- 15:56symptoms because they want to know a bit more about Channel
- 15:58heart away, I got to, we don't know, I need only if you
- 16:05darling. So Trudy.
- 16:08So treated and I'm sorry that you have to kind of deal with
- 16:10people like that. I mean, it's it is annoying.
- 16:12Luckily. I work from my home and I'm a
- 16:15YouTuber, so I could work in my home office.
- 16:17So it's kind of cool, but I don't have to deal with people
- 16:20like that if I don't have to. So here's an interesting for try
- 16:23and wrap it up like and I hope people are getting value from
- 16:25this conversation. I think it's been really good,
- 16:26and it's nice to have a general insight.
- 16:28Right, you know, how do we know each other, right?
- 16:30This is an interesting thing. We're both from the same part of
- 16:33the world, but I don't know if that's how we know each other.
- 16:36We have like friends in common. So I go first, I think it is.
- 16:41Yeah. Yeah, I think it's because we
- 16:44both did BBC. Sesh I'm going to say because we
- 16:47both did videos for the same company, and I think we all sort
- 16:51of in the same group chat. I think there was like, when it
- 16:53first launched, we were part of the first launched by the OG
- 16:56crew. So I think I added you from
- 16:58there and then I saw you sharing all these political posts
- 17:00outside. Oh, yes, like like someone is
- 17:03someone who's not a Tory from where I'm from like, That is it.
- 17:11Bond on by on date, I think it was I think it was Lenny who
- 17:17added me into a group chat with everybody and then like some of
- 17:20the nicer people as a couple of there's a guy called been.
- 17:23I think I like he had glasses, you know him.
- 17:28He was at the Excel when I was doing some of the city and he
- 17:31was doing running, he was doing like behind the scenes of Runner
- 17:34and he was like dude I was like, oh he did and he was when he was
- 17:37running for my panel. That's kind of cool.
- 17:38But yeah, that is Exactly how we know each other and it's really
- 17:41funny because, you know, I'm from Anglesey.
- 17:43I'm about an hour, an hour and 15 minutes away from where you
- 17:47grew up, right? And that's not, that's not far
- 17:50at all because it's only, it's only that amount of time
- 17:53distance because you have to go through a mountain, to get to
- 17:55where you live. Right?
- 18:01Exactly. So G along geologically, we're
- 18:04very close in where we live, but to get there, you know,
- 18:07logistically was a bit of a nightmare and it's really fun.
- 18:09We don't have any friends in common from North Wales, which I
- 18:12find hilarious. I swear, if you dug a bit deep
- 18:17would find someone because I've got family from angled.
- 18:19So, you know, and they're all like 27 to like 33 if age.
- 18:24So, oh man, the come on here. I've got my probably do know.
- 18:27All right, when we finished the Buckeyes, I'll will talk.
- 18:29But anyway, right. Is there anything that you would
- 18:31like? And this is a cool question is
- 18:34anything. You would like to tell your
- 18:35younger self about ADHD now that you're like a, you know, an
- 18:38established one when you're doing all this cool stuff and
- 18:40you've got control of your condition is anything you'd like
- 18:43to tell your younger self? If you could go back in time,
- 18:44like Listen, baby Merit cello. I love that question notes.
- 18:51That I would like to tell myself to chill out or anything.
- 18:53I just had myself, mate. You're weird.
- 18:55Yeah, but it's great and do not. Let anyone tell you that you're
- 18:58not going to be like successful in media because everybody to
- 19:02tell me, you know, you'd never going to leave blow.
- 19:06Now you never going to do anything but me just carry on
- 19:08being weird and will get you places eventually the Woody that
- 19:11is what I would say. Don't change a thing.
- 19:14Did I love it? I absolutely love it.
- 19:16And it's been a pleasure having you on my podcast because Nice
- 19:19to change it up, and it's a bit refreshing and it's nice to
- 19:21have, you know, girls on the Spectrum here, talking because,
- 19:25like, I feel like there's a lot of like male-dominated, kind of
- 19:27like scenes of the stuff. I know, I'm a white male, you
- 19:30know, talking about autism when I guess it's very typical but
- 19:33it's nice to have curls on it talking.
- 19:35Right, right. Thank you so much for coming on.
- 19:38So if I can also get you on Instagram and Twitter, what's
- 19:40your handle? It's just my name is at moderate
- 19:42party and I'll have some very for my stories of people want to
- 19:46check it out because I always chat loads of beep.
- 19:50Dude, I don't even know if I'm gonna I don't know if I've got
- 19:51you on Instagram, bro. Are you verified in a gram?
- 19:56I wish I was verified on Instagram.
- 19:58You just saying that cause I am verified and Samia.
- 20:04Why do I? Why don't I have you?
- 20:05This is so weird guys, but oh wait.
- 20:08Matthew Joseph. We have a friend in common.
- 20:12Matthew. Matthew.
- 20:14Matthew Joseph, he's a singer. He actually said date.
- 20:16My brother. There you go.
- 20:18Lovely. Well, it's a small world, isn't
- 20:20it? That is lo, look at that.
- 20:22My brother's ex-boyfriend is, is a friend and call me you write.
- 20:26Okay, guys, it's been awesome. I'm going to, I'm going to stop
- 20:28recording now. Thanks for joining the show,
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