The complex experience of ADHD adults with Linda Roggli

Linda Roggli is one of the speakers at the Let's Talk 2E Conference For Adults, hosted by Julie Skolnick.

Her live presentation was titled Free to Be ADHD (and 2e).

The site for the Conference summarizes:

Linda Roggli is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), award-winning author and founder of the A-D-Diva Network for ADHD women 40-and-better.

She is an internationally-recognized expert in midlife and senior ADHD. She co-founded the annual ADHD Women’s and ADHD Parents’ Palooza, two weeks of online conversation with 30+ ADHD experts. (adhdpalooza.com)

She also created the popular ADHD Get Organized program which features live organizing sessions.

Linda’s book Confessions of an ADDiva: midlife in the non-linear lane won first prize for women’s issues in the prestigious Next Generation Indy Book Awards competition.

She chairs the webinar committee for ADDA. She lives in Durham, NC with her slightly OCD husband, one OCD cat, four adorable ADHD Shelties and 15 cackling hens.

Owning an ADHD brain has its challenges — time blindness, trouble with initiation and completion, impatience, impulsivity. And they are magnified with the ‘gift’ of 2e at work and home (“If you’re so smart, why can’t you keep a job?”).

With strong heritability, it also impacts parenting (“I’m sorry I forgot to pick you up after school!”).

The paradox of high intelligence coupled with high distractibility is difficult to explain, even to ourselves.

But many ADHD adults, especially those diagnosed in later life, admit they have managed their lives by out-thinking everyone else in the room.

There is a high price for this hyper-vigilance — anxiety, exhaustion and eventual burnout.

Understanding the complex interaction between ADHD, executive function and giftedness is the first step toward creating a life that is authentic and richly rewarding.

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