BBC World Service: The Conversation. Women living with ADHD

Chakanetsa, Kim, Tan, Kai Syng, Sedgwick, Jane and Naylor, Emily (2023) BBC World Service: The Conversation. Women living with ADHD.

Abstract

When I was asked to appear on BBC World Service to discuss women and ADHD with Kim Chakanetsa, I said yes. After all, the show's good enough for Olympian & powerhouse (and ADHD-er) Simone Biles (as well as Nobel prize winners Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and May-Britt Moser, and world leaders Michelle Bachelet and Helen Clark). Also, this radio service was my one window to the world from a tiny tropical 'paradise' I grew up in last century (where ADHD, poverty etc don't exist!). When asked whom I'd like to chat with, I named my friend Dr. Jane Sedgwick-Müller. We'd both 'discovered' our ADHD late in our lives. As Jane is from nursing, our views are deliciously, productively antagonistic - which makes for a lively chat (but not an easy job for Kim or the editor!). I'm lucky to often been given a platform - which I hope I use meaningfully. As the magnificent poet-teacher bell hooks says, you want to use the margin as a space of resistance, creativity and power, and transgressing 'out of one's place', requires 'pushing against oppressive boundaries'. I discussed how more divergent body-minds must gate-crash hallowed spaces when asked to 'stick to your own lane' or 'go back to where you're from'. I also critiqued normative, ableist measures of 'success'. I debunked myths about popular/populist narratives (haven't we had enough of neurodivergent billionaire tech-bros and their antics?).

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Other: Kai Syng Tan

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