ADHD, Parenting, and the Pressure of Entrepreneurship (With Jessica Shaw)

The school sent her daughter to a desk with her head down because she could not sit still during circle time. That was the moment Jessica stopped waiting for someone else to figure it out.Jessica Shaw is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Vanity Fair. She is the host of Everyone Gets a Juice Box, Understood.org's podcast for parents raising neurodivergent kids. She is also a mom of two teens who think differently, and someone who recognized her own ADHD only after researching her children's.Skye and Jessica get into what the detective process actually looks like. Why parents are often dismissed first and believed later. How the school system's default response to a kid who cannot conform is to remove them rather than support them. What guilt sounds like when you feel like you should have seen it coming sooner. And why the window between noticing something and getting real support is longer, more expensive, and more isolating than it should be.What We Cover:Why parents are often the last ones taken seriously, and what it takes to keep pushing anywayHow school systems send a conformity message to neurodivergent kids and what it costs them long-termThe financial and time barriers to evaluation, and why they fall unevenly across familiesWhat the detective process looks like when the parent doing the investigating also has undiagnosed ADHDWhy one parent's decision to reduce work hours for her neurodivergent child was called "trad wife" by colleagues, and what that reveals about the support gapConnect With Jessica ShawPodcast: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxec!podcast_guestADHD Articles: https://www.understood.org/en/topics/adhdADHD & Women: https://www.understood.org/en/topics/adhd-womenUnderstood.org's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/understood/Understood.org's Instagram: @Understoodorg P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/