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ADHD Mums

Being a mum is hard enough. Being a mum with ADHD — or raising neurodivergent kids — is a whole different level. ADHD Mums is the unfiltered, science-meets-reality podcast hosted by Jane McFadden — an Autistic and ADHD mum with a Master"s in Neuroscience and Psychology and certification as an ADHD and Autism assessor. This isn"t another polished parenting show with "ten easy tips". It"s real stories, confessions we"re not supposed to say out loud, and the research that explains why so many of us

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40. ADHD Hyperfocus or Real Passion? 3 x Tests to...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/10/07

You did Pilates every week for a year. Then you bought the reformer so you'd never have to drive there again. You haven't done Pilates since.Now there's a new idea that won't leave you alone, and it feels exactly like the last one did on day one. So how do you know if this one's real?That's the ADHD hyperfocus question a listener sent in. She's been a teacher for 27 years. For the last few years something's been building in her: she wants to start a neurodivergent-affirming school. She's even

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14:03

39. Mum Hacks: It Feels Like Cheating. It's Worked...

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2026/10/04

You rolled forty identical socks into pairs the night before your mum arrived. Then unrolled them all on Monday.The hack works. It's worked for six months. So why does it feel like you're getting away with something?This Mum Hacks starts with a voice memo about forty pairs of identical white socks and ends with a confession about mine. In between: the two piles every objection from your inner critic falls into, the one question that sorts them, and why a sociologist would say you might be running

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11:47

38. Mum Hacks: 'I Forgot My ADHD Medication Again.'...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/09/30

A nurse who gives out meds all day found May's script in her glove box in July. Still in the chemist bag.She bought the pill box with the days on the lid. Put it next to the toothbrush, like everyone says. It worked for two weeks. Then one morning she looked straight at it, and she was already in the car.The verdict she landed on: careless with the thing that matters most.It might not be that. Your brain files anything that never moves as background. The fridge humming. The shirt on your back. The

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23:33

37. The Grief After the Diagnosis: Why You Felt Flat...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/09/28

Have you ever fought for years — the waitlist, the referrals, the appointments where nobody believed you — finally got the diagnosis, and then sat in the aftermath feeling nothing? Have you ever had everyone around you exhale and tell you how relieved you must be, while you felt flat, wrung out, and grieving something you couldn't even name — and then guilty, because didn't you get exactly what you asked for?You're not ungrateful and you're not doing it wrong. There's a real thing that happens after

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10:24

36. Mum Hacks: 'I Wasn't Consistent Enough.' It...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/09/23

Have you ever found the old laundry basket in the garage, full of paint tins, and couldn't say when it stopped being the laundry basket? Have you ever said 'I fell off the wagon' about towels?You keep a list of every system that stopped. This short episode is about what that list is actually recording — and the one question to run on any hack before it goes on there.Related EpisodesQUICK RESET: The Hallway Hook That Saved My Sanity →

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17:26

35. ARFID and Lunchboxes: Why It Comes Home Untouched...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/09/21

You packed it at 7am. The safe food, the same as always, because the sandwich comes home untouched and it feels like putting money in the bin. At 3:30 you open the lunchbox and it's exactly as you packed it.You've been told to hide the vegetables, stop making separate meals, she'll eat when she's hungry. None of it has worked. Dr Rachel Zabel says the question every parent walks in with — how do I get her to eat — is the wrong end of the problem.Related EpisodesCould it be ARFID? Spotting the Signs

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30:53

34. ADHD and Team Sports: Why the Sideline Is...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/09/16

The whistle's gone, they've lost by three, and he's standing in the middle of the pitch with his socks down and his shin pads on the grass, not moving. He walks off past the handshake line, straight to you, face like thunder — they didn't pass to me, I could have won that — and he shoves your arm. And the two mums behind you stop talking.You already know what the sideline wants you to do. This episode is about what it costs when you do it, and what to do instead when you're standing there at 10am on

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27:07

Hormones and Neurodivergence: Why You Have a List of...

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2026/09/14

You're bendy. You get dizzy when you stand up. Your periods are heavy, the headaches are worse the week before, you're constipated, you're exhausted, and your mood falls off a cliff for a few days a month. Every one of those has been looked at on its own and waved off. Your bloods came back normal, so that was that.You probably don't have seven separate conditions. Dr Ceri Cashell is an Irish GP on Sydney's Northern Beaches who has spent her career on the part of medicine nobody was taught, and she

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24:53

32. ADHD Overstimulation: Why You Snap at 4pm When...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/09/09

You were fine at 9am. Genuinely fine. Then it's school pickup, the gates open, there are dogs and toddlers and a teacher walking towards you, and one kid starts up with let's go to the park, let's go to the park. And you hear yourself snap at someone who did nothing wrong.You didn't ignore the warning signs. You weren't getting them. That's a different problem, and it needs a different fix.Related EpisodesEvery Mum Rage episode in one place — the collection Jane mentions in this episode →

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42:16

31. Why Am I Always Sick? ADHD, Burnout and the...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/09/07

Have you ever been told your bloods are fine, it's just busy mum life, and walked out still dizzy, still flat, still carrying a headache you've had for so long you forgot it wasn't normal? Have you ever watched a friend do eight-hour days like it's nothing and quietly decided the difference must be you — that you're just weaker, and you need to suck it up?There's a reason your body keeps stopping after twenty years of pushing through. Bianca Comfort has lived it and treats it, and she says the crash

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13:52

30. ADHD and Losing Things: Why You Get It Ready...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/09/02

Have you ever bought the perfect birthday present weeks early, felt properly pleased with yourself, and then lost it before the birthday? Filled in the form, folded the flap, put it somewhere safe on the Sunday — and by Wednesday it had gone? Renewed the passports early, put them in the safe place, and then had no idea where the safe place was?You've been told your problem is that you're disorganised. It isn't. There's a job that piece of paper was doing that nobody ever told you about, and every

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26:09

29. Hypermobility, POTS and MCAS: The Conditions That...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/08/31

You might be the bendy one. Or the dizzy one, the one with the headaches that never really stop, the one who reacts to food nobody else reacts to. Tired in a way sleep doesn't fix. And every time you get to a GP, you can't quite land on the same page as them.Dr Jason Lam is a GP and sports medicine registrar who spends his days on the things that get missed — hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos, POTS, MCAS, and the way they tangle together in a neurodivergent body. This is the episode that joins the dots

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25:19

28. ADHD and Friendship: Why You Can't Send the Text...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/08/26

There's a mum at pickup you really like. Ninety seconds every afternoon, one of those chats where you both go 'yeah, exactly' — and then the kids spill out, someone's swinging a backpack like a helicopter, someone's demanding the petrol station, and you're pulled away before you can even say goodbye. And every day you get back to the car thinking: I should have her over. We should do a barbecue. I'd love to actually talk to her for more than ninety seconds.You got her number in January. It's the end

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29:23

27. ADHD and Survival Mode: How to Stop Trying Harder...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/08/24

From the outside, she's on top of it. Then something small happens — a cold, a bad night, one extra thing — and the whole thing collapses. And she decides the collapse is the problem. She needs to be better. More disciplined. Try harder.But the collapse isn't the problem. The collapse is information. The problem is that she's been running her whole life on a system that was never built for her brain — and every time it falls over, she reads it as proof that she's the thing that's broken. Rachel Few

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28:27

Why You Can't Accept Kindness: Masking, Surface...

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2026/08/19

Your best friend leaves a box of tampons on your doorstep on the worst day of your fortnight — no fuss, no waiting around, just quietly handling the piece of the nightmare nobody else saw. And you well up. Real tears. And then you wait ten minutes to make sure she's gone before you'll even open the door, delete the thank-you you started typing, and walk off. Because you could not have said it to her face if someone paid you.If you're the woman who leaves a gift on a doorstep and runs, who dodges

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25:44

When You Say Too Much: ADHD, Oversharing and the Room...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/08/17

Have you ever answered a simple question with the whole real answer — and watched the room go a particular kind of quiet? Have you ever lain awake at 2am running back one thing you said in a group chat three years ago, certain everyone clocked it the way you did? Have you ever walked out of a room having already decided you were the too-much one before anyone said a word?There's a reason your brain gave the director's cut when everyone else gave three sentences. It's not the reason you've been

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17:56

S4 E21. The 3 Types of ADHD in Women (And Why So Many...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/08/12

For thirty years, ADHD has had one wanted poster. Loud, can't sit still, disrupting the class, talking back — a boy. And you weren't him. So you walked past every checkpoint in your life — the GP, the teachers, the report cards, the parent-teacher nights — and nobody stopped you. Maybe someone said you were bright, you just needed to apply yourself. Maybe you got 'conscientious' on every report card. And conscientious doesn't go with ADHD, does it?Three different women can all have ADHD. All three

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28:42

ADHD and Marriage: We Separated for 18 Months. Then...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/08/10

In the Facebook group there's a pattern that comes up again and again: the mum grows. She gets the kids assessed, she starts to recognise herself, she does the reading and the therapy and the work — and the husband lags behind. He won't consider that he's neurodivergent, or the problem is always someone else. The kids. The school. Her. And underneath it all is the question so many women are actually asking: how do I get him to see it, and is it even worth staying?Emily Jade O'Keeffe's story runs the

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24:19

Mental Load: 'I'm Just Tired of Being the Only...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/08/05

The mental load starts as the thing you can laugh about — the admin, the medal for mowing the lawn. And then, somewhere underneath it, it stops being funny. It's the sentence that comes out of your mouth before you can stop it: 'would you mind having the kids on Saturday so I can get a haircut' — asking the other parent for their own children like you're lodging annual leave with HR. It's 'they were so good while you were gone,' and knowing 'good' meant nobody got fed. It's being so tired of being

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33:28

ADHD Assessment: What Actually Happens in a...

ADHD Mums ·

2026/08/03

**This episode is general information only and is not medical advice. If any of it applies to you, please talk it through with your own GP or psychiatrist**Have you ever walked out of a psychiatrist's office more confused than when you walked in? Not sure what just happened, whether you got a diagnosis, what you were supposed to ask, or whether the thing you were terrified of — coming across like you were just there for the stimulants — is exactly what you did. For a lot of women getting an ADHD

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