This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

Iiiiit's Episode 30!!! This will be the last episode for this season before we take a teeny tiny break. There's a lot going on and we are going to recharge our batteries before coming back even stronger! Will Callie finally figure out remote recording? YES SHE WILL! Maybe... hopefully.

In this episode, we explore the connection between ADHD and Intuition - we know that as an ADHDer you have wondered if you have more intuition than other people. We hear you and we're going to look into it.

Topics covered:

• Beard chat - this thing pretty much has its own postal code!
• Threads - is it good?
• Is this the end of the world?
• Pattern recognition, mimicry, and hyperawareness
• Rituals, deja vu, and spirituality - do ADHDers have a 6th sense?
• Magiv versus neuroscience

Sidequests:

• 90s song lyrics - we ollld
• WAP CPR
• Was Merlin neurodivergent?
• Nursery rhymes and superstitions
• History is written by the victor - why are women always evil?

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Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

Andrew is back for episode 29 (basically ep 28 part 2) this is a special bonus episode, let us know if you like the episodes shorted and spread over 2 weeks - we can do that!

Topics covered:

• Stimming - vocal and physical
• Laughing at other people's conversations in public
• Time optimism
• How to use post-its to save your spoons
• Importance vs interest for ADHDers
• Sour taste test

Sidequests:

• Plot of land
• Repetitive noises give me uncontrollable rage
• stop interrupting!
• A day in the life of Andrew
• Are Twisties basically straight Cheezels?

Come and join the F them fish community on the socials:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fthemfish_adhdforgrownups/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fthemfishADHDforgrownups

Please like, rate, (5 stars are the only stars :D ) and follow the podcast wherever you listen. It really helps. Don't forget to share with absolutely everyone you know. Especially your nan!

Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

Andrew is back for episode 28! If you heard episode 26, you'll have heard the listener feedback and know that there was a big call for him to come back and talk more about his experiences as a late-diagnosed ADHD and austistic man. This talk was long and I didn't want to cut any of it, so we will bring you part 2 next week as a special bonus episode - lucky!

Topics covered:

• Is it harder for men to get a late diagnosis?
• Revisiting ADHD and Autistic intersectionality
• Feeling invalid with 'only' having ADHD
• Reimagining the diagnostic criteria
• Insight into Callie's incredibly weird brain where songs are waiting so burst out at all times
• Maladaptive daydreaming

Sidequests:

• Lauchy has weaponised music against me!
• 2003 was 20 years ago...
• Shiz! My eyes are closed
• The origins of Spoon Theory

Come and join the F them fish community on the socials:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fthemfish_adhdforgrownups/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fthemfishADHDforgrownups

Please like, rate, (5 stars are the only stars :D ) and follow the podcast wherever you listen. It really helps. Don't forget to share with absolutely everyone you know. Especially your nan!

Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

It's episode 27! Sharna is back and we are going deep into the tricky subject of ADHD and lying. This is one of the most challenging and shameful things that comes with having a neuromagical brain. We pull apart the various things that contribute to the common misconception that ADHDers a compulsive liars and dig into the elements that actually happen and why they can make it seem like we're lying. We also look at the fact that many neurodivergent people simply cannot actually lie and what does this contradiction mean for navigating the multitude of relationships we need to on a daily basis. This was a fascinating subject and we all learnt a lot about ourselves doing the research for this one.

Topics covered:

• Listener Question: How to communicate authentically when you're incapable of lying?
• Exaggeration and embellishment
• Lying to avoid rejection
• Is masking basically lying?
• lying vs surviving
• when someone else lies... WE KNOW!

Sidequests:

• Beards and bacteria
• 'Neurospicy' has been cancelled
• The ADHD situational personality
• Digging into 'Diversity'

Come and join the F them fish community on the socials:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fthemfish_adhdforgrownups/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fthemfishADHDforgrownups

Please like, rate, (5 stars are the only stars :D ) and follow the podcast wherever you listen. It really helps. Don't forget to share with absolutely everyone you know. Especially your nan!

Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

Dr Di is back for episode 26! This is her third visit and today she is taking us through some of the challenges some ADHDers have with food and obesity. We want to be clear, we are not here for any form of size-shaming nor do we believe that larger bodies are in any way bad or wrong. What is interesting is looking at the sensory issues that might be affecting your relationship with food and how when we go looking for dopamine, sometimes that means we empty the pantry - this isn't a good thing in many ways! As Dr Di is a scientist and a Doctor, she explains some of the medications that could be used for treating some of these dopamine and mood challenges. Another reminder that if you have ANY questions about treatments or medications, you need to speak with your health care provider and do not take this as advice, because it absolutely isn't.

Topics covered:

• RSD vs Narcisism
• Exaggeration - it's a thing!
• Lifesavers taste test
• Food avoidance
• Dopamining (I'm totally claiming this)
• Types of taste that we crave

Sidequests:

• The correct way to hang toilet paper
• Colonoscopy prep
• Hermione Grainger is autistic
• ADHD, Autism and email hell

Come and join the F them fish community on the socials:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fthemfish_adhdforgrownups/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fthemfishADHDforgrownups

Please like, rate, (5 stars are the only stars :D ) and follow the podcast wherever you listen. It really helps. Don't forget to share with absolutely everyone you know. Especially your nan!

Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

In episode 25, we go into the nooks and crannies of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and while it may not be one of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, it is incredibly common for people who are neuro-magical. We take some listener feedback and Callie goes into an RSD pit. We then explore a listener question - How do you cope when someone you work with doesn't like you?

Topics covered:

• Listener feedback - do we do too many sidequests?
• How to seek and give feedback
• Should you approach the person in question?
• Preemptive groundwork to avoid conflict
• Things to stop doing immediately
• What if it can't be fixed
• THAT Panorama episode
• Taste test - raspberry Twisties

Sidequests:

• Kia ora koutou Aotearoa (so sorry for the shocking pronunciation!)
• Facebook Marketplace funnies
• Tone of voice doesn't mean tone!!
• Bad coffee
• Misheard song lyrics

Come and join the F them fish community on the socials:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fthemfish_adhdforgrownups/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fthemfishADHDforgrownups

Please like, rate, (5 stars are the only stars :D ) and follow the podcast wherever you listen. It really helps. Don't forget to share with absolutely everyone you know. Especially your nan!

Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

It's episode 24! Occupational therapist Rachel is back and she has got some really great tips for anyone who thinks they would benfit from asking for some accommodations in the workplace and doesn't know where to start. As well as Rachel, we have another special guest in Baby B, who spent the entire 2 hours recording time strapped into a Tula and slept the whole time - we get some bonus baby snuffles every now and again, so strap your ovaries in as it is cuuuuuuuuute!

Topics covered:

• Callie has an apology to make
• What is an occupational therapist? Why should you get one?
• How to ask for workplace accommodations
• What is reasonable vs unreasonable?
• Step by step suggestions for accommodations that might help neurospicy people in the workplace
• Seeking vs sensitive
• Listener challenge - Rachel was a Peruvian meme, can you find it?

Sidequests:

• Neurodiversity or neurodivergence?
• Radio jingles from way back
• Other useless songs taking up brain space
• White noise is rage-inducing
• Fidgets

Come and join the F them fish community on the socials:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fthemfish_adhdforgrownups/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fthemfishADHDforgrownups
• Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fthemfish_adhdforgrownup?lang=en

Please like, rate, (5 stars are the only stars :D ) and follow the podcast wherever you listen. It really helps. Don't forget to share with absolutely everyone you know. Especially your nan!

Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

Welcome to Episode 23! In this episode, we speak with Andrew, who was diagnosed with ADHD and Autism (ASD2) around 6 months ago. Andrew is incredibly generous with his story, sharing all of the details around the journey he has been on before, during, and since diagnosis. Being only our second male guest, Andrew offers a perspective that has some differences but also similarities with the stories of our other guests over the last few months. We know you will be fascinated by what he has to say - we were, which is why this episode is our longest yet!

Note: in a completely unexpected turn of events, Andrew was diagnosed by one of our previous guests - Bianca! This wasn't set up and Bianca didn't know until we told her after recording. Canberra is a pretty small city!

Topics covered:

• Internal hyperactivity in ADHD
• Sensory issues in ADHD versus autism
• ADHD and memory issues
• An in-depth description of diagnosis involving clinical psychology and psychiatry
• looking at misleading stereotypes
• All about medication
• Synesthesia (seeing sound)
• Intrusive thoughts
• What's your meme?

Sidequests:

• When random song breakouts attack!
• Toe wedgie listener callout
• things that got us into trouble as kids
• Maths or math?

Come and join the F them fish community on the socials:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fthemfish_adhdforgrownups/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fthemfishADHDforgrownups
• Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fthemfish_adhdforgrownup?lang=en

Please like, rate, (5 stars are the only stars :D ) and follow the podcast wherever you listen. It really helps. Don't forget to share with absolutely everyone you know. Especially your nan!

Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

In Episode 22, we are joined by the sensational and highly talented Bianca Calabria. Bianca is a clinical psychologist and academic researcher, with a speacial interest in all things ADHD and Autistic. Bianca also talks from a lived experience perspective as a person with both ADHD and Autism. She has some incredible professional and personal perspectives that will make you shiver and maybe give you something new to think about.

Topics covered:

• Who is Bianca?
• Self-determination in research
• The strengths of ADHD 'deficits'
• What is Orthogonal thinking in ADHD
• Thinking styles and ADHD
• Flat Affect, pattern recognition, and autism crossovers
• The power of 'I believe you'
• What's your meme?

Sidequests:

• Google - BackRub? What??
• ADHD and forgetting names
• 6th Sense the movie
• Tattoos

Come and join the F them fish community on the socials:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fthemfish_adhdforgrownups/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fthemfishADHDforgrownups
• Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fthemfish_adhdforgrownup?lang=en

Please like, rate, (5 stars are the only stars :D ) and follow the podcast wherever you listen. It really helps. Don't forget to share with absolutely everyone you know. Especially your nan!

Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening.

This podcast is all about our experience with late ADHD diagnosis and the questions we have as we continue to navigate life. This podcast is in no way medical advice or intended to be used as a diagnostic tool. That applies for any guests we have on too!

We love hearing about our listeners' experiences with ADHD, and we'd love to hear yours if you want to join us on the mics - drop us a DM (socials are at F them fish_ADHD for grownups) or an email ([email protected]).

It's Episode 21 and Callie's Mum is here! We managed to get her Dad to say hi, but he was still recovering from the spider encounter.

Topics covered:

• We answer some listener questions about our separation and how neurodivergence plays a part
• Chat GPT - will AI help NDers or make it worse?
• Gizoogle, not Jizzoogle
• Holiday to the south coast - bugs, bugs, bugs!
• Embarassing stories of Callie as a kid - were there signs of ADHD?
• What's your meme?

Sidequests:

• Haunted household appliances
• Plat-ya-puss
• Just add water
• Poo Corner
• Never play Cards Against Humanity with your parents
• Maths isn't real

Come and join the F them fish community on the socials:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fthemfish_adhdforgrownups/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fthemfishADHDforgrownups
• Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fthemfish_adhdforgrownup?lang=en

Please like, rate, (5 stars are the only stars :D ) and follow the podcast wherever you listen. It really helps. Don't forget to share with absolutely everyone you know. Especially your nan!

Love Callie and Lauchy xx

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