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ADHD Girls is a social impact company with a mission to empower neurodivergent women with the knowledge & tools to thrive with ADHD & AuDHD and elevate neurodiversity understanding via an intersectional lens Powered by personal lived experiences of ADHD, we work to destigmatise ADHD and support ADHDers via:

Post-diagnosis Support:: Personal and professional development workshops for ADHDers;

Adv

ocacy: Producing thought-provoking digital awareness campaigns and events;

ADHD training: Running ADHD awareness session within education and work settings to improve cultural understanding of ADHD and providing best practice approach to support ADHDers. We work on the basis of the strengths-based approach, recognising that neurodiversity is a cross between the medical model, intersectionality, and the social model of disability.

28/08/2026

The called today and asked if I can talk about their article published in the early hours today “NHS bosses warn of chaos in ADHD and autism care”.

I went on and said these things:
🌟 why there’s an explosion of ADHD, autism diagnoses
🌟 how clinics across the UK do not seem to have a standardised approach and wider intersectional training is required
🌟 how diagnostics and care needs to be tailored via an intersectional lens
🌟 what we are really dealing with and why everyone thinks ADHD and autism is a trend
🌟 why women and girls are needing the right labels more urgently than other identities, because of the disconnect between psychiatry, hormone/ physical health, and trauma/ mental health services
🌟 how systems have not caught up with what it means to be human in this day and age

And this is just talking about the diagnostics part, the post-diagnostics support is a different scenario altogether.

Train to become an AuDHD woman advanced practitioner with ADHD Girls and understand AuDHD and the connection between neuroscience, biochemistry, hormones, identity, and relationships via a trauma-informed approach and intersectional-lens: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

27/08/2026

562,000 people are now waiting for ADHD and autism assessment and support services in the UK.
And the complaints have more than tripled in the past 5 years.

I went on LBC Radio to speak about this (you may spot my child in the background towards the end). 😂
We need a complete overhaul of the system.
I believe that:

🌟 we need to start segregating people based on their needs, even before diagnosis,
more in the report on the independent review for ADHD, autism, and mental health, set to be published later this summer.

🌟 More radically, support shouldn’t be gatekept behind diagnosis.
And we need support tailored to the person,
rather than inadequate care distributed to the masses.

🌟 We need to keep services accountable for the quality of diagnostics and care.
Psychiatric care is mostly intended for those in survival mode,
and before our practitioners can prescribe adequate care, we need to be seen in our realities.

Dig into my book Tip of the ADHD Iceberg to understand what different ADHD realities can look like.

Learn to see the full spectrum of an AuDHD woman’s reality by training to become an AuDHD woman advanced practitioner this October: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

I’ve struggled with mainstream definitions of ADHD and autism eversince I burst into the neurodiversity scene in 2020. M...
26/08/2026

I’ve struggled with mainstream definitions of ADHD and autism eversince I burst into the neurodiversity scene in 2020.

My first LinkedIn LIVE about the topic of women and ADHD attracted over a 1000 people.

Here’s why:
⭐️ Human lives are distinct, messy, and unpredictable, to try and diagnose and treat a neurodivergent individual based on a label is already non-inclusive
⭐️ girls, women, global majority, underrepresented identities, real humans who has co-occurring neurodivergence and mental health conditions, survival modes, ebbing and flowing biology, coping strategies are completely missing in this definition

This is also why you will rarely find me discussing a neurodivergence trait in detail now.

And why a trait can be hard to box.

E.g.,
What causes RSD?
The answer can be anything from neurobiology to a flippant remark by a stranger to someone contending with their deepest betrayal wounds - IN A TIME WHEN THEY ARE IN A GRIEF CYCLE OF LATE DIAGNOSIS or the poignancy of their own life stage where they’re navigating their identity upgrade.

The media, the organisations, the people need to understand ND traits in the context of how people come together in a relational system to affect one another.

We are ALL connected.
What you see in someone is already in you.

Join our October cohort of AuDHD women advanced practitioner programme to discover the truth of our experiences: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

Midlife identity shakeup There comes a point in your life where you question everything: ⭐️how you work ⭐️how you love⭐️...
24/08/2026

Midlife identity shakeup

There comes a point in your life where you question everything:
⭐️how you work
⭐️how you love
⭐️the people you let in your corner
⭐️where we lose ourselves inside belonging

And recently, on the road to recovery from relational wounds and forming a more coherent identity, my:
Boundaries
Self-assertion…

Came out… clunky. Like my inner self in transition bursting into the meeting room and says:

WE WILL NO LONGER BE ACCEPTING NONSENSE. 😂

With every ending created from being loyal to ourselves,
There is also grief, pain, and longing to be met…

Lately, I’ve been reconnecting with many neurodivergent friends and an idea is brewing in my head around creating a space for the community.

And I’m visualising a multi-circles convention.
Where we come together in connection and let music and movement guide our way to being present with ourselves and each other. I would also like to share what it means to reconnect with our feminine intuition and what our body tells us.

How do you feel about this?

After Channel 4 aired the documentary that rocked the community,I spoke to Eleanor Noyce at the Metro newspaperto bust s...
20/08/2026

After Channel 4 aired the documentary that rocked the community,
I spoke to Eleanor Noyce at the Metro newspaper
to bust some myths.

The reason I think the media is still trying to discredit the ADHD label?
We are still comparing ADHD to an outdated standard,
when people seeking this diagnosis aren’t adequately represented by this standard.

Recent research has uncovered that not only that
there are genetic links between ADHD, autism, and Tourette’s syndrome,
but that we are rarely just ADHD or autistic alone.

The picture gets complicated when one is AuDHD,
being diagnosed late,
and trying to find the appropriate medication.

When asked to bust the myth “ADHD medication is like slow-release cocaine”,
I snorted (pardon the pun) at the idea:

“Dr Samantha Hiew, founder of ADHD Girls, laughs at the comparison. ‘No, absolutely not,’ she says. ‘The right medication can really prop someone’s life up,’ Dr Samantha adds.

‘Everything comes with pros and cons, and it’s managing and balancing the cost and benefit of taking medication. It needs to be tailored.’

I also said,
not everyone will benefit from the medication,
and that medication, for many of us,
is a survival tool,
to help us fulfil the roles we were given in society,
to be productive, to feel better, to regulate ourselves to neurotypical standards.

If society changes, then maybe so many of us who are currently medicated might not need it?

Why scapegoat the label,
when we are living in systems that aren’t catered to highly sensitive humans?

Train with us to become an AuDHD women’s advanced practitioner in October: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

I spoke to a client yesterday.She mentioned two awareness weeks taking place in September and October One around happine...
12/08/2026

I spoke to a client yesterday.
She mentioned two awareness weeks taking place in September and October
One around happiness,
and the other... su***de.

And I told her: “This is kind of like… the meeting of the light and the dark, which is actually where I come in.” ☯️

In September, I’ll be speaking at the Masters Events
about reclaiming the feminine nervous system
through descending into the emotional underworld,
excavating and emerging with an entirely new sense of Self,
and new questions that form our lived experience research.

Along the way, I learned a thing or two about our emotional experience,
something so many had feared, avoided, detached from, labelled, and medicated when we couldn’t understand them.
I have been learning how to retrain the nervous system
by reconnecting to the body, mind, and spirit
via the most intense curriculum: relationships with other neurodivergents,
where we become a mirror to each other,
that together with our collective stories,
exposes far more depth than any scientific paper or tertiary institution has ever covered.
There’s really no substitute for experience.

DM or email me to enquire about my keynotes.
I’m also really itching to create another ND Phoenix event... here’s to visualising it taking place before the year is over.

I think rejection sensitivity dysphoria at midlife needs a rebrand. To be called the Most Freaking Terrible Feeling in t...
28/07/2026

I think rejection sensitivity dysphoria at midlife needs a rebrand.

To be called the Most Freaking Terrible Feeling in the World.

Because it also coincides with a midlife identity shakeup.

I experienced the most excruciating RSD pain in the past five days that ground everything to a halt, and it’s not even based on anything rational.

No one has really rejected me.
No one got physically hurt.
No one intentionally did anything obvious.

Except when nothing is done by the person I thought would have my back,
The wound of neglect,
Abandonment,
Invisibility,
Became activated from the first people who first installed this in me.

It gave me what I now know as Broken Heart Syndrome, it wasn’t a fresh wound but it was certainly there.

Which makes me see the difference between “innate” RSD,
And what was “acquired” RSD, from past experiences of CPTSD.

Grateful for my friends who supported me through this, got me out of bed, and into the park.

I’ve needed the love that I’ve poured outwards for so many years. Truly grateful to the community I’ve built right now. Thank you. 💝

The strong one: I’m writing this on behalf of every AuDHD woman who has ever had their pain disregarded because they’ve ...
22/07/2026

The strong one: I’m writing this on behalf of every AuDHD woman who has ever had their pain disregarded because they’ve been the one who:
💕 look at their own behavioural patterns and work hard to show up healthily for others
💕 spent a lifetime masking their needs, where their walls were more apparent
💕 had been the original parentified child/ eldest daughter
💕 find it hard to verbalise their needs in real time, and stick to boundaries they’d created
💕 might have been the one holding worlds up for others while secretly wishing someone would anticipate their needs.

I see you. I love you. And I am you.

During the most turbulent time in my life, it was another AuDHD woman who held space for me. And I was completely immersed in this unprecedented level of care and love. Wow.

But the relationship built on need, when I was in need, didn’t end all that well.

This is why I know that to be able to stand on my own two feet, it began with being unapologetic about both my strengths AND needs.

And the right people for you, will meet you exactly where you are.

Everything I know about being AuDHD begins and ends with self-differentiation, the journey to reclaiming our feminine self and nervous system through body, mind, and spirit.

If women wake up to just how powerful they are, the world will be completely different.

We are rolling out the October cohort for the AuDHD woman advanced practitioner programme soon, due to popular requests. Check it out: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

In my work, I’ve learned to always ask:“What led you here today?”Because even when two people share the same diagnosis, ...
13/07/2026

In my work, I’ve learned to always ask:
“What led you here today?”

Because even when two people share the same diagnosis, their experience of it rarely looks the same.

A biologist sees ADHD as a genetically inherited condition.
A trauma therapist sees it as a product of childhood wounds.
A psychiatrist sees it through a dopamine-serotonin lens.

All of them are right. And none of them has the full picture.

Robert Sapolsky calls this reductionism - the way we artificially isolate disciplines, as if biology, psychology, and environment aren’t part of the same seamless continuum.

But the woman sitting across from you in clinic isn’t a diagnosis. She’s the product of her evolution, genes, nervous system, childhood, hormones, context: all of it, all at once.

This is especially true for AuDHD women.

So much of what she carries is invisible on the outside. Her coping looks like competence, exhaustion looks like fine, and her nervous system is working overtime - and no one can see it.

That’s why I created this masterclass + clinical thinking guide.
To help you see her, her shifting internal world, safety needs, and resilience - so you can actually meet her where she is.

It comes from a place of being able to see everyone else, but having not yet had someone who could meet me in my depth.

🔗 Recording + Guidebook available now: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-in-women-masterclass

I’ve always struggled with reductionist thinking in neurodivergence. Because I’ve lived what happens when a complex pers...
09/07/2026

I’ve always struggled with reductionist thinking in neurodivergence.

Because I’ve lived what happens when a complex person gets a simple explanation - Mislabelling, misunderstanding, dismissal.

Here’s what I see in my field:
❤️‍🩹 A trauma therapist sees trauma everywhere.
❤️‍🩹 A psychiatrist reaches for diagnostic categories.
❤️‍🩹 A scientist leads with biology.

Each is brilliant in their lane -
and each can accidentally mistake their lane for the WHOLE road.

Add to that our human tendency to prefer single-cause explanations.
They’re easier to teach, communicate, and sell.
Complex systems are genuinely hard to think about, let alone layer on.

But here’s the problem. 🫤
An AuDHD woman isn’t a single cause.
She’s genetics, hormones, sensory processing, chronic masking, repeated invalidation, cultural pressure, and cumulative stress, all interacting over a lifetime.

Reduce her to trauma? You miss neurodevelopment.
Reduce her to genetics? You miss what her environment did to her.
Reduce her to hormones? You miss the decades of adaptation that got her here.

The most important shift happening in research right now isn’t a new diagnosis or a better drug.
It’s a better question.
“How do genes, brain development, hormones, stress, immune function, and lived experience interact - across a whole lifespan - to shape this particular person?”

That’s the question my work is built around.
Because she deserves to be seen whole. Not in parts. And this is why I’m introducing a new layer to my TOTI framework that helps her move forward in her post-AuDHD recognition journey: Safety, capacity & sustainable living.

We are holding a LIVE Masterclass today at 4.30 pm UK time, there’s still time to sign up: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-in-women-masterclass

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