The Black Women Breaking the Stigma Around ADHD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2021
- Studies show that Black women with ADHD often remain undiagnosed and untreated - future astronaut and PhD student Lavontria Miché Aaron is sharing her story and encouraging other women to get tested, too
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ADHD is very under diagnosed in women. Usually because the hyperactivity is replaced by inattention. They might not be understanding or retaining anything but they're quiet.
The hyperactivity is replaced by inattention in so many ADHD women and even men.
Hyperactivity happens more so in the mind. Racing thoughts and such.
@@rahbeeuh same
@@rahbeeuh YESS
I didn't find out I had ADHD until my second year of college, I always struggled with depression and anxiety from not being able to complete my assignments on time or pay attention into doing anything. After I got diagnosed and started therapy and medication it changed my whole life. I got organised, paid more attention and started performing well in everything I set my mind into doing including loosing weight and exercising more. I only wish I knew about my condition sooner but I'm grateful I did. It's not easy but it starts with self awareness of the condition, reading about it also helped me into managing it.
Ur literally describing my life rn, I’m a sophomore in college and going thru the same thing, and I struggle with my weight
I didn't find out until I flunked out . I even went for psychological help they were no help. I talked about my symptoms they said it was normal. One day I was on TH-cam and I saw an add on adhd that talked exactly about my symptoms.
how did you get diagnosed ???
I didn’t find out I had ADHD until I was 34. Knowing and understanding why certain things were difficult for me has made a world of difference.
The same for me😣
I was 32 smh
I’m 31 and think I have it
@@brittinimiles436 you should go get diagnosed so you can know for sure.
Do you take medication?
I also think it's super important to talk about the intersection of ADHD and anxiety in women. Meaning a girl (like myself) may have symptoms of ADHD and struggle with paying attention and impulse control and social connections but then develops anxiety to help mask those ADHD symptoms leading to still getting their work done on time, not acting on impulse to talk to everyone, staying seated, being quieter, "paying attention", not fidgeting as much. But just because the comorbid diagnosis is there and helps us mask doesn't negate ADHD symptoms being present.
That's deep, India. Anxiety as a way to make ADHD more operational? Wow. Thank you for that. It makes so much sense in the way I process information and outside stimuli. It definitely keeps me in my seat for fear of what wildness may come when I don't. 🤯
Yep
I think I have social anxiety in particular, but I never thought that part of my anxiety may be how it's masking my very likely ADHD symptoms. Thank you, this is a helpful connection to make.
As an hispanic kid with ADHD who grew up in Oakland CA, there was no end to the help I received. Mrs. Waters was the best teacher I've ever had. She was an older black woman who grew up in harsher times but had the patience of an angel. There were many who aided me throughout my life. It was those kind of people who took the time to teach, discipline, and encourage me to live my life beyond discrimination of any kind. Learning from the stories of people's struggles and hardships makes us all stronger as a community.
Hispanic kid with possible ADHD from NJ here, despite my parents attempts the mental health professionals refused to give a specific diagnosis and instead labeled me emotionally disturbed and sent me to special Ed. So I got no help for the ADHD, but they did yell at me a lot in the special Ed schools so I guess they thought that worked.
Getting tested for ADHD is hard, for one a lot of mental health professionals refuse to study it and instead rely on stereotypes to refuse testing. You need referrals to be seen in a lot of cases.
“You can’t have ADHD, you’re too smart, you graduated college, only kids have it, only boys have it.” ADHD testing is NOT ADHD friendly. There are too many confusing hoops, it costs a lot to get tested and for some one that’s underinsured, they may never get tested which means they struggle alone.
Your comment reverberated through my soul! I want to be tested but have Medicaid…in Alabama! I’m running into so many dead ends, it’s almost been a year of trying to get tested and I don’t exactly have the tenacity to keep at it so I’ve fallen off the wagon several times.
@@MissLolaElle this seems like a long shot but a lady told me the psyche department of a university might be able to do it for hella cheaper. That’s what I’m gonna try when refunds come.
@@beatrixthegreat1138 That's not a bad idea! Thank you, I will look into it.
I was diagnosed about a month ago and I'm 38. Life has been absolutely hard and confusing. I only got clarification and help when I decided to go to the doctor. Of course not my family. Black families normally don't do anything and claim to not want to put their kids on medication. I have never and will never understand that kind of thinking. A lot think of this issue as just theirs and their ego guides them when it comes to mental health issues and getting help. The child has to live through that and then grow up and try to be a normal functioning adult and it's beyond hard.
This story makes me happy. Speaking as an old white guy who wasn't diagnosed till 60, long after crashing out of grad school, finally knowing & finally getting treatment has transformed my life: it truly is never too late -- BUT it's never too early, either, and I am gladdened that you and your friends are enjoying more timely treatment & a greater chance to reach your potential, for each of you individually and for humanity. God bless, ladies; Live Long & Prosper 🖖
I'm also just diagnosed at 60. Still waiting for therapy and meds. Trying not to regret everything.
The inequity of ADHD in black women, was most certainly understudied. I overlooked, and brushed off. I'm so happy this is being discussed 💯💯💯💯💯💯 it really does feel like two separate experiences. It's truly an isolating experience. I have been struggling all my life, but I personally noticed it in middle school going into high school
I’m 35 & was diagnosed with the Inattentive Type early this year. I struggled through college and always wondered why studying seemed easier for other people, I kept changing my major & then I just settled on a major to graduate. I also wondered why I can’t remember things from my childhood, why I always have incomplete tasks, I zone out of conversations, I’m a clutter bug, indecisive, overambitious, impulse shop, etc. Even with medication & being a stay at home, it’s still difficult since I have so many distractions.
Is not being able to remember your past a thing with ADHD?
This is lovely. I had a doctor tell me they couldn't help me because it's a child's disease.
report them for malpractice.
It happened to me too! He specifically said "I don't treat children's disorders". It wasn't out of malice though, he was just ill informed. I switched doctors and found another who not only treated me but also realized I had Asperger's on top of ADHD.
That's messed up
Sad on soo many levels bruh😢
Only now as adult am I realizing that if I had been diagnosed earlier I’d have far more prepared in life. All that time waisted…at least I’m staring somewhere though 😅
Amen
This!!!
Black with self diagnosed adhd and autism, considered high functioning and very strong academically but at age 42, I am burnt out, stressed, deal with anxiety and chronic fatigue. In a financial mess due to executive dysfunction, naivete and lack of guidance as a younger individual. To get a diagnosis, I have to pay a therapist and unfortunately I don't have faith in caribbean therapists to diagnose me. They wld more likely dismiss my case since adhd is seen as something new and I observe only children from affluent households actually get a diagnosis and accomodations made for them. If I tell people that I think I'm autistic with adhd, they'll just laugh at me. They rather call me weird and messed up than dredge up any kind of empathy for someone with neurodivergence. The video was helpful though
I feel so seen by this comment. Fellow Caribbean here!
Im 35 and went undiagnosed until I finally got tested 2 months ago. I'm still navigating what treatment is best for me, but just finally knowing has giving me some relief.
Hello, what type of test did you get done if you don’t mind me asking?
@@dree743 I had to go to a neuropsychologist and I had to take a 5hr test. It was a bunch of small tests timed that included spelling, reading words and remembering them like 20mins later after doing a bunch of other test in the mean time, some math, patterns, and others I can’t remember. Definitely worth taking it and the correct diagnosis has for sure helped my life!!
@@courtdub3162 Thank you so much for sharing that information! I appreciate you 😊 I am definitely going to look into that!
I feel this, I’m on a similar journey.
So many girls are overlooked for diagnosis because they have inattentive-ADD. A diagnosis gives a chance to understand something so fundamental about yourself and begin to recover from being falsely accused of naughtiness for a lifetime.
This video probably connects with many female viewers who have fallen through the diagnosis net. This is an important video - medical bias matters and deserves more awareness. The consequences of building diagnosis around “little white boys” are tragic. It’s heartbreaking to think so many kids, esp girls, continue to face disciplinary attention for having undiagnosed qualities, rather than understanding and help.
K know what is going on
my older sister has inattentive-ADD, i have ADHD. it took us until we were in our late 30s stuck in lockdown syndrome to realize something was wrong with us more so than just general depression.
*ADHD-Inattentive (idk why they don't remove the H but an official diagnosis usually includes the H even if you're not necessarily hyperactive). Then again, for some hyperactivity happens in the mind vs outwards.
@@rahbeeuhexactly that’s my exact situation my hyperactivity is more of the mind than body
@@mymylauren it happens more often than not. I'm not sure why that's not included in criteria but perhaps one day it will be
I’m currently getting tested for ADHD after my Aunty got diagnosed and my mum said she saw similar symptoms in me from when I was a kid. (Didn’t get offended as I thought I had it lol)
I’m so happy I stumbled across this video.
Even though I don’t know if I actually have it, I do struggle a lot with school. I’m very gifted, however my concentration levels decline at the end of the college year. And I realised the way I work is wayyy different to my friends and peers - I leave everything right up until the deadline.
i just hope ADHD is recognized all across the color and gender spectrum; it could happen to anyone regardless of who you are or where you come from.
Well yeah, it could happen to anyone
No not aloud, I am a white male it's 2021 I'm supposed to be an apologist because of other ("white") people's mistakes.
Age too
@@lbrown6397 Awww…are you triggered? You’re white fragility is showing.
It is. This is video is just focusing on a specific person. Let me guess: you’re white and think that everything has to focus on everyone all the time, or just white people.
I have ADHD and high functioning autism, I was diagnosed at age 10 for ADHD, and 12 for autism. I am now taking meds and it help with excessive energy, and fidgety behavior. My experience is that I am very skilled in academics, but don’t understand body language very well, (among other things) ADHD and autism are birth conditions so you have the condition from birth. I am a white girl. This is my experience.
I find it upsetting when people talk/write about ADHD as a disorder as if it’s all downsides, all disabilities, when ADHD is also incredibly helpful in other aspects of life. Though it can be problematic in social situations. (From my experience, I’m not a doctor)
A few weeks ago I spoke to a woman about her ADHD. Everything she said sounded like me. I'm in my 50s. I have studied at post-grad level and never understood why I would struggle with certain elements. Never too late to learn. 😊
I was diagnosed at 47 after having suspected it and tried to get properly assessed for 7 years. My dad was *unofficially* diagnosed in the early 90s (a close, longtime family friend was a clinical psychologist and caught it), and my middle daughter has been showing signs and symptoms since she was 2.
When I did well in school, it was because learning (when I'm interested) is a hyperfocus.
Same here! My two girls both have it! I'm inattentive and was diagnosed at 26, and I'm 42 now and widowed mom of 2 and a college student. It's a struggle.
I'm a white guy with ADHD, but watching this video reminds me of my diagnosis when was struggling in college 25 years ago. It changed my life!
And the young woman reminds me of my daughter. So cute and smart.
I needed this. 🙏🏽
Wow, this brilliant, strong woman has progressed to PhD without treatment 👏
And I was thinking that my life was over because I am starting college at 30 after the diagnosis.
I love that I have something in common with her! 🤩 I love that she's speaking out. I wish I had known sooner too.
Really love this video, and I'm currently taking steps into getting help and properly diagnosed. I
I’m glad I saw this today 😊
her shirt is so cute
She's awesome
I believe I have inattentive ADHD, but I am not being heard by my GP. Does anyone have any advice as to what I can do?
You go girl.
It dose
What is the test for ADHD like?
How u get testing
I can't begin to explain what it would be like for a black woman to have ADHD, but for myself, for anyone new to the subjects think of a semi solid liquid and that's ADHD. A liquid that is liquid in it's natural form, but solidifies into a completely solid form under any sort of pressure. Now, think about any task being a ring you want to get from the bottom of a container of this substance. But, instead of pressure solidifying it, it's lack if interest.
ADHD people have very difficult time feeling interest in something, as quickly over time we get bored of any repeated stimuli, which most tasks are filled with. Anyone else get bored of subtracting 50 different fractions on a worksheet?
We tend to get distracted by any other stimuli around, and lose interest or many time, even a memory of the task.
If we are interested in the task, the task is actually quite simple to do. We can easily reach into the container and retrieve the ring. If we get really interested, we may fixate on the task, and keep at it all day to the exclusion of anything else.
Unfortunately, a great majority of tasks are lacking in much of any mental stimulus. This, the liquid in the container solidifies and we are now faced with smashing our hand through a solid object to retrieve the ring, or fulfill the task. Many times, getting a simple worksheet with 50 ridiculously easy fraction subtractions is about as easy as walking through solid brick wall.
Add to this is parents, siblings, extended family, teachers, fellow students, and friends who can't even see a wall, nevermidn be blocked by it, looking at you like you're crazy for not just going over and doing the basic task. You tell them u till you are blue the face that you simply can't walk through a wall, there's no possible way to do it. They then typically think you're crazy, making up imaginary walls blocking you, or say you're a lazy liar and that you are choosing to just not give through.
It doesn't take many instances of this happening before you both give up and lose any self worth. It's like you live in a world filled with walls everywhere you go populated by people who can't even conceive of the idea of what a wall is.
It's complicated to explain to people who can't really understand. I guess it's a little similar to explaining color to a person who's been blind their entire life.
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Wish I could go get tested.
i take dextroamphetamine
The for profit medical industry has to pass us around a while subtracting our money, insurers’ money like a plat of cookies until enough of them get enough from us, then they might diagnose, trying things to see what might work! Hernias, heart problems, skin problems, fatigue! Causes are irrelevant! No fix allowed!
I always get weary when America talks about ADHD.
Doctors are often drug hungry even for kids who are normal and hyperactive like any normal kid 🤷♂️
I couldn’t finish the video.
Ok
I want you to know that Jesus is real. He died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and rose on the third day. He loves you more than you could imagine and wants a relationship with you. God bless.
Wonderful.... But what does this have to do with ADHD?
@@champsammy13 Well, Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace.
@@cheyennecraig4788 okaaayyy....
Jesus is not real its's a fact
@@urmumisgay599 Jesus is a spirit of good. It’s a spirit not a Person know your facts.
She's a PhD student and future astronaut. She's fine. For christ sakes it's adhd not schizophrenia.
Are you fr...
Unfortunately you’re never going to be an astronaut. Not because of your ADHD but because of dyslexia. Having something like that would make you an extreme risk in any sort of space scenario. But the adHD according to the government makes you on almost unteachable and a risk because of or impulsiveness.
Thats not how Dyslexia works if i believe what youre suggesting.
@@ixinor Unfortunately, people like Sean Walck can just pull "information" from their behind and put it in a comments thread on YT.
@@teresaweaver1012 that dude has access to the worlds knowledge and prefers to remain ignorant.
Seriously concerned that a 'future astronaut' is making ADHD a racial thing.
Edit: Just watched the whole video.. she seems to just be talking about a burnout lol. Happens to everyone who also starts off in a new job. Seen it too many times with nurses.
The “racial thing” is the inequality in psychological diagnoses and treatment. ADHD isn’t racist itself, obviously.
@@thingswhynot Get a life.
@@Chroi no u
Are you slow??
No. You clearly do not understand how our race influences our diagnosis and treatment. I’m a black girl with ADHD/Autism and CPTSD. I would know.