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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.

Practitioners keep asking to “pick my brain” about AuDHD women.But what they’re often really asking is:“What am I missin...
08/06/2026

Practitioners keep asking to “pick my brain” about AuDHD women.
But what they’re often really asking is:
“What am I missing?”

A coach reached out recently because he was seeing more AuDHD women in his practice.

By the end of our conversation, he said:
“You’ve equipped me with a completely different set of questions.”

That really stuck with me because I can see the struggle: the questions practitioners are asking aren’t broad enough.

When we widen the lens, we start asking about hormones, stress physiology, masking, nervous system adaptation, identity, relationships, and survival strategies.

That’s where better support begins and why I’ve created a new Masterclass in July:
AuDHD Women: The Pattern Most Practitioners Miss ✨

It’s a 2-hour practitioner insight masterclass introducing the hidden patterns conventional frameworks often overlook.

Because sometimes the biggest shift is seeing something differently.
Read more about it in this article: https://samanthahiew.com/this-is-why-practitioners-keep-trying-to-pick-my-brain-about-audhd-women/

Join my new masterclass: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-in-women-masterclass

One of the things I wish more people understood about AuDHD women is that there isn’t one “real self” hiding underneath ...
07/06/2026

One of the things I wish more people understood about AuDHD women is that there isn’t one “real self” hiding underneath the mask.

A new podcast interview dropped this week. 🎉

And of all the comments, it was this one that stayed with me:
“Why does she have five or six different accents? She’s masking while explaining masking...”
I smiled when I read it, because the irony is that this interview was probably one of the least masked versions of me you’ll find online.

We recorded it during my luteal phase, after already completing another interview that day in which I shared parts of my trauma story.

My energy was lower, thoughts much less polished, and my communication was “more fluid” shall we say? 😇
And in many ways, it was simply... me.

So here’s what’s underneath “the mask”.
There are layers:
🎭 Different environments reveal different parts of us.
🎭 Different levels of safety reveal different parts of us.
🎭 Different levels of exhaustion reveal different parts of us.
Like an onion, our humanity exists in layers.

For years, I thought being authentic meant finding one fixed version of myself.
Now I think authenticity is having the freedom to be all of it.

The articulate, tired, over-functioning, grieving, joyful, and even the version that still hasn’t figured everything out.

Perhaps unmasking isn’t about becoming someone different.
Perhaps it’s about learning to stop rejecting the parts of ourselves that don’t fit the image we think others need.

I’d love to know:
What has unmasking taught you about yourself?

Neurodivergent Family Systems - Intergenerational Patterns & Relational Dynamics.As a sensitive woman, I was the first p...
04/06/2026

Neurodivergent Family Systems - Intergenerational Patterns & Relational Dynamics.

As a sensitive woman, I was the first person in every room to sense when something was wrong.
This began a long time ago, inside the first system I was born into.

At 23, I left home and travelled halfway around the world, and I’ve begun again and again several times since - starting a family of my own, getting divorced, co-parenting, and learning to reparent myself.

Each time I find myself asking the same question:
“Where does the pattern end, and where do I begin?”

Today I will speak at nscience UK on Neurodivergent Family Systems - Intergenerational Patterns & Relational Dynamics.

This changes everything:
When you stop treating neurodivergence as the identified patient’s problem and start seeing it as a family ecology, the patterns become visible.

The sensitive child who overreacts.
The mother who is holding everything together.
The grandmother nobody addressed, but everyone recognised her impact.

Neurodivergence manifests as both nature AND nurture.
Often, they’re inherited patterns through the family lineage.

And for AuDHD women, women who had never fitted into neat boxes and never seen, recognising this is where breaking the cycle begins.

I’m Dr Samantha Hiew, a lived experience researcher, community builder, AuDHD woman diagnosed with ADHD at 40 and then ASD at 44.

I bring all three into every room - research, collective stories, and my personal insight - to humanise our neurodivergent experience in today’s world.

(Something is coming in July for practitioners who want to go deeper. Watch this space.)

Yesterday, I told a room full of autistic ADHD women something I’ve never quite said out loud before. I showed them my w...
02/06/2026

Yesterday, I told a room full of autistic ADHD women something I’ve never quite said out loud before. I showed them my weird. 🎵

That I want to find a more joyful way to do this work. 😍
That one day, maybe not so far away, I want to sing with a group of women and make our mission felt that way. A multi-circle, Neurodivergent Phoenix Convention. Women. A place we feel safe.
A movement using song and joy as the vehicle for collective healing.

They beamed, and I realised then that the thing I’d been holding back wasn’t strange at all. Perhaps that has always been the point.

Today, a new cohort of the AuDHD Women’s Advanced Practitioner Training begins. It’s built from everything I’ve lived, researched, and translated for you, and for the women you serve.

It’s also built on this: the belief that we don’t have to earn our healing through suffering. That joy is not a reward for surviving. It’s the framework itself.

If you’re a practitioner who’s ready to stop working around the edges of complexity and start meeting it head on with rigour, warmth, and a little more of yourself in the room - join us as we begin today! 🎉
Or somewhere in the near future, where we hold a collective joy circles.

Many scientists and practitioners have been challenging the validity of labels for decades. The DSM is a constantly evol...
31/05/2026

Many scientists and practitioners have been challenging the validity of labels for decades.

The DSM is a constantly evolving document according to the academic and cultural pressures of our time.

The neurodiverse community had been very disappointed by this video interview that was posted by New Scientist last week.

I think the issue is that we need a new framework to look at both autism and ADHD, especially when these labels aren’t neat boxes anymore.

Back in 2024, I sat down to write Tip of the ADHD Iceberg because so many in the community have said that “the ADHD and autism labels do not adequately explain our existential struggles”.

And in 2025, I was denied an ASD diagnosis 3 times, in what was a highly traumatic process. I then learned that getting the label increases the chance of those who are in vulnerable life situations to get further misdiagnosed and mistreated by the healthcare systems.

The AuDHD women’s advanced practitioner programme was created to help practitioners learn how to adequately see and support an autistic ADHD woman, based on my TOTI framework.

While our SAM (Self-Advocacy Mentor) tool was created with the aim to help her translate her experiences when she’s in her most dysregulated state.

All of this is in motion as I work out how to structure ADHD Girls to be more sustainable for my nervous system in the long term.

There’s nothing like learning, healing, and growing alongside this work.

Join our next cohort beginning in two days: https://lnkd.in/e4cQ2mx7 AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

The BBC recently investigated mental health units in the NHS trusts failing women in mental health care.What they found ...
28/05/2026

The BBC recently investigated mental health units in the NHS trusts failing women in mental health care.

What they found wasn’t shocking to me.
It was familiar. It wasn’t an isolated incident either.

It’s been going on for decades, and perhaps beyond a century in different places throughout history.

Women misdiagnosed. Dismissed. Given medications to stabilise presentations that were never properly understood. Treated for symptoms without anyone asking what those symptoms were adapting to.

This is what happens when systems don’t have the right lens.

And autistic ADHD women are disproportionately caught inside this gap.
Because the frameworks used to assess and support them were never built with them in mind.

I know this because I’ve heard thousands of their stories.

I know this because it could very well have been me, too.

The Advanced AuDHD Women Practitioner Certification exists because the field needs practitioners who can see differently.

Not just more knowledgeable about AuDHD.
Genuinely transformed in how they understand the women in front of them.

Over six weeks, here’s what shifts:
You stop asking “what’s wrong with her?” You start asking “what has she adapted to survive?”

That one question changes your assessment. It changes your formulation. It changes your client’s experience of being seen - possibly for the first time.

Practitioners who complete this programme tell us they experience:
→ Greater confidence supporting complex, layered presentations
→ More accurate formulation and differential understanding
→ Stronger therapeutic alliance and client trust
→ Clearer professional positioning in AuDHD-informed care
→ Improved referral quality and continuity of support

This isn’t continuing education for its own sake. It’s training that transforms women’s lives.

The BBC investigation showed us what happens when systems fail these women.
We have the power to be part of what changes that.

Enrolment closes 1st June: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

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Over six weeks, we go deep:→ Why AuDHD women are still being missed and misdiagnosed → How masking, hormones, trauma, an...
27/05/2026

Over six weeks, we go deep:
→ Why AuDHD women are still being missed and misdiagnosed
→ How masking, hormones, trauma, and intersectionality shape presentation
→ What the nervous system is actually doing behind the behaviours we misread → How to build genuinely safe, affirming support spaces
→ How to apply the TOTI framework in real clinical and coaching practice

Following the programme, this is what you will achieve in terms of outcome:
- Greater confidence supporting complex presentations
- More accurate formulation and differential understanding
- Stronger client trust and engagement
- Improved continuity of care and referral quality
- Clearer practitioner positioning in AuDHD-informed support

Apply for the June cohort here: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

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