Attention Different | Adulting with ADHD
Attention Different is an ADHD podcast centered on radical acceptance and neurodiversity. We aim to de-stigmatize the condition and build community by exploring the intricacies of living life and "adulting" with ADHD in the modern world. As a group of storytellers, filmmakers, and ADHD coaching professionals, we are invested in promoting diverse voices in our community and creating resources for adult ADHDers.
Attention Different | Adulting with ADHD
Late Not Less Ep. 08 | She Got Rejected Hundreds of Times… On Purpose. — w/ Alice Draper
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What if the reason you hold yourself back isn't a personal flaw, but a survival mechanism your brain built to protect you?
In this episode of Late Not Less, host Devin Pitts-Rogers sits down with Alice Draper, founder of podcast guesting agency Hustling Writers and host of the award-winning podcast My Rejection Story. Together, they embark on a candid, deeply personal conversation about rejection-sensitive dysphoria (RSD), people-pleasing, ADHD tax, and what it takes to build resilience against rejection. Alice brings her experience as a late-diagnosed ADHDer, a writer who got rejected hundreds of times, and a researcher obsessed with understanding why rejection hits some of us so much harder than others.
In this honest and wide-ranging episode, Devin and Alice explore the complicated web of RSD, self-sacrifice, and identity that so many ADHD adults navigate, and help listeners understand what they can do about it.
✨ Highlights ✨
✔️ What rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) actually is and why it's not in the DSM
✔️ A shocking theory about what causes ADHD brains to rewire in childhood
✔️ “ADHD tax” and how it can cost you serious money in ways you don't see coming
✔️ The link between RSD, people-pleasing, and self-sacrifice
✔️ What happens when you stop performing the version of yourself everyone expects
✔️ How exposure therapy works neurologically
✔️ How to build rejection resilience through “micro-rejections”
✔️ Practical advice for caregivers of kids with ADHD
"Sometimes the things that served us well in childhood are the very things that hold us back in adulthood." — Alice Draper
We are Attention DIFFERENT not DEFICIT An advocacy and edutainment podcast centered on radical acceptance and neurodiveristy. Attention Different aims to de-stigmatize and build community by exploring the intricacies of living life and "adulting" with ADHD in the modern world. We periodically feature experts, special guests and influencers in the ADHD community.
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