Attention Different | Adulting with ADHD Late Not Less Ep. 04 | Why Women Keep Getting the Wrong Diagnosis w/ Jessi Sorensen
What does it mean to be diagnosed with "anything but ADHD?” How many times do you have to be dismissed before someone finally listens?
If you've ever left a doctor's office feeling unheard, unseen, or handed the wrong label, you're not alone.
For Jessi Sorensen — TV producer, documentary filmmaker, and late-diagnosed ADHD adult — that question became the foundation for her feature documentary. Anything But ADHD follows a group of women navigating a medical system that consistently misses, dismisses, or misdiagnoses them.
In this episode of Late, Not Less, host Devin Pitts-Rogers sits down with Jessi to unpack her journey: from a childhood of overachieving through burnout to avoid punishment, to a career in reality TV that was accidentally ADHD-friendly, to finally getting diagnosed after visiting six different doctors.
✨Highlights ✨
✔️ Why so many adults have to fight and pay out of pocket just to get a diagnosis
✔️ The brain science that finally makes ADHD make sense
✔️ How ADHD in girls gets socialized out of sight before anyone thinks to look
✔️ The misdiagnosis pipeline and why the wrong label can follow you for decades
✔️ What hyperactivity actually looks like when it doesn't fit the stereotype
✔️ The unexpected ways treatment can help beyond just focus
✔️ The connection between ADHD, physical health, and symptoms we're taught to ignore
✔️ How ADHD traits that feel like liabilities can become unexpected strengths
✔️ The workarounds, systems, and adaptations that actually make life work
✔️ Why community, not gatekeepers, is the future of ADHD awareness
"I could not have done this three years ago. I would cry immediately just thinking about all this shame. But I think that's been it, it's just meeting other people, learning from each other, supporting each other. That's been the best unexpected part of this whole thing." — Jessi Sorensen
💬 Were you ever dismissed, misdiagnosed, or told it was "anything but ADHD"? Drop your story in the comments, your experience might be exactly what someone else needs to hear today.
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