Neurodiverging Danielle Sullivan

After spending her career working in leadership development, Alex  Gilbert decided to start a consulting and coaching business to help  adults with learning disabilities and/or ADHD (like herself), who have  been struggling in their careers and at home. In today's interview, we're covering:
- Alex's journey to becoming a life coach after a career in leadership development
- the importance of adaptive technology and other resources for adults  with learning disabilities and ADHD, and how these resources can benefit  everyone.
- how we can better understand our own needs in order to advocate for ourselves
- Alex's experience as a new parent and how to avoid the comparison game  

Show notes here: https://www.neurodiverging.com/alexandra-gilbert-of-cape-able-consulting/  

Learn more about Alexandra Gilbert here: https://www.capeableconsulting.com/  

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From Defeated to Inspired is a 6 week program for neurodivergent folks of all genders who’ve been working to understand themselves and their neurodiversity, but are getting sucked into overwhelm when negotiating family, friends, work, school, and all the other demands of life. Our Spring cohort is open for registration until Friday, 3/18 : https://www.neurodiverging.com/group-coaching-neurodivergent/

 


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Today host Danielle Sullivan discusses pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder,  what it's like to live with it, and its higher than average incidence  among people with autism and/or ADHD.  

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The article I reference is "PMDD, Autism, and ADHD: The Hushed Comorbidity" by Tori Morales in Additude Magazine: https://www.additudemag.com/pmdd-autism-adhd/

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Show notes and transcription here: https://www.neurodiverging.com/my-experience-of-autistic-pre-menstrual-dysphoric-disorder/


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Have you ever been able to focus on a task for hours, while also  experiencing difficulty with starting said task?  If so, you may have experienced the increasingly-researched phenomenon  known as “Autistic Inertia”. It’s the name given to the  commonly-experienced difficulty in starting and stopping tasks,  especially in neurodivergent individuals.  Recently, a research publication explored autism and inertia and has  given us a better understanding of how autistic people can work with  their differences instead of against them!  See the original article here: https://www.neurodiverging.com/what-we-know-so-far-about-autistic-inertia/

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Danielle Sullivan is an autistic parent, a certified positive psychology coach, and the host of The Neurodiverging Podcast. 

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Spencer Bishins is a lawyer who worked at the Social Security Administration Appeals Council for almost four years, reviewing  thousands of disability decisions for compliance with SSA’s complex  rules and procedures. He then worked at the hearing level for seven  years, where he drafted almost 2,000 decisions for SSA Administrative  Law Judges.

We’re discussing the nitty gritty of how the SSA is  supposed to work, why it currently doesn’t do a great job in supporting  disabled people in the United States, and what we can do to encourage a better system to take its place.  

Transcript and show notes are here:  https://www.neurodiverging.com/why-the-us-disability-system-is-failing-with-spencer-bishins/  

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Today, host Danielle Sullivan discusses their experience parenting a  child with pathological demand avoidance/ pervasive demand for autonomy  as an adult autistic PDA-er themselves. Danielle describes what PDA is,  why these behaviors show up in certain autistic folks, and gives some examples of supporting a PDA child in everyday life.  

Join us on 1/20 for our webinar, Practical Strategies for Working with a Resistant Child. Learn more and register here. 

Learn more about our 6 week collaborative parenting group program, starting January 30th:  https://www.neurodiverging.com/neurodivergent-collaborative-parenting-class-group-coaching-program/  

Show notes and transcript here:  https://www.neurodiverging.com/pda-day-to-day-parenting-pathological-demand-avoidance-pervasive-demand-for-autonomy/


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