The Degree Dilemma: Distance Learning, Dopamine, and Doubting Your Diagnosis

Does university feel like it was built for a version of you that doesn’t exist?In this episode, Alex Turpell joins the project to share the raw reality of navigating higher education with a late ADHD diagnosis. We move past the "study tips" and get into the heavy lifting: the isolating world of distance learning, the roller coaster of emotional dysregulation, and the polarising experience of starting medication as an adult.We’re stripping back the "toxic positivity" often found in neurodivergent spaces and getting honest about what it looks like to unmask in a world that demands a 2:1.In this episode, we reframe:The Distance Gap: Why remote learning is a double-edged sword for ADHD brains.The Hormone Factor: How monthly cycles and ADHD meds play a tug-of-war with your focus.The Masking Tax: The cost of "playing student" and the power of radical authenticity.Emotional Dysregulation: Moving from "too much" to "fully understood."Ready to reframe your degree? Hit follow and join the project.