Many adults in the ADHD community know what it feels like to receive a diagnosis later in life, that mix of relief, grief, and retroactive clarity that comes with finally having language for who you are. For many queer adults, coming out later in life carries that same emotional fingerprint. In this session, speaker and neurodivergent therapist Jamie Roberts draws on both her clinical expertise and her own lived experience of late ADHD identification and coming out in her 30s to explore what these two journeys share, including the cost of masking, the search for belonging, and the unexpected power of arriving “late” to yourself.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the emotional similarities between discovering ADHD and queerness later in life, including the relief, grief, and “it all makes sense now” that often comes with both
- Understand how hiding parts of yourself across multiple identities takes a real toll, and walk away with at least two practical ways to start easing that weight
- Reflect on what it looks like to embrace all of who you are when you’ve spent years not having the words for it
Course Features
- Lectures 3
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 53 minutes
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 8
- Assessments Yes
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 3 Lessons
- 53 Minutes
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