Feb 10
In Episode #65 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces you to Jaime Fisher. Jaime lives in Connecticut where she is raising four kids and an infant while transitioning back into the workforce. With over 100,000 hours of parenting experience, Jaime is a strong advocate for both moms and babies. She runs a Facebook site called Hey New Mama, and is working on a book on the optimal care and feeding of new moms.
Jaime shares: the circumstances around her ADHD diagnosis why ADHD mothers make great parents how her and her husband manage their household of five children under normal circumstances how her family is actually doing in the midst of COVID19 good news on the resilience of children what she works on paying attention to during this time her advice around learning and children why rituals are important during times of stress her personal ADHD workaround.
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"I like so many people with ADHD as a young girl growing up through public school, felt a lot of the same feelings other people feel I don't fit in. I'm stupid. Oh my gosh, I'm not getting this. Everybody else gets up at me."
- Jaime Fisher
"Despite myself, my kids are turning out amazing. I don't know if it's me, but they really, they amaze me every day."
- Jaime Fisher
"And even the foster child wasn't necessarily long term plan. It was like a three day here's this decision now we're never help the family or don't. And we've made the decision to jump in."
- Jaime Fisher
- Tracy interviews Jamie Fisher about her experience with ADHD as a stay-at-home mom and TV game show winner.
- Jaime shares her experience with ADHD, feeling like she didn't fit in and struggled with self-doubt in public school.
- Jaime is now homeschooling her four children, including a newborn she's fostering, and finding a sense of groove after three weeks.
[02:13 - 06:49] ADHD Diagnosis and Fostering a Newborn
- Jaime recognized her own struggles with ADHD while working in the Disability Services Office at college, leading her to seek professional testing and diagnosis.
- Jaime's diagnosis and accommodations helped her navigate university life more effectively, recognizing the importance of understanding and accommodating individual learning needs.
- Jaime and her husband are fostering a newborn and a 2.5-month-old, with the goal of adoption.
[06:49 - 14:27] Motherhood, ADHD, and Personal Growth
- ADHD women can be great mothers despite societal expectations and challenges.
- Jaime shares her experience as a mother of four, including her struggles with balancing her own needs with those of her children, and how she adopted a growth mindset to improve her mothering skills.
- Jaime's husband is introverted and a social worker, which creates an interesting dynamic in their relationship, but they find ways to connect and support each other.
