Episode 81 - A Daughter's Experience with Alzheimers and ADHD

About this episode

Jami Shapiro and Heather Callison discuss the impact of discovering ADHD later in life and its effects on family dynamics.

In this episode of Grandma Has ADHD, Jami Shapiro sits down with ADHD coach and behavior analyst Heather Callison for a deeply honest conversation about discovering ADHD later in life, raising neurodivergent children, and how family patterns often reveal the bigger picture. Heather shares her journey of recognizing ADHD in herself after her daughter’s diagnosis and how that discovery reshaped her understanding of her past, her career, and her family dynamics. Together, Jami and Heather explor...

People in this episode

Host: Jami Shapiro

Guest: Heather Callison

Topics covered

• ADHD
• Alzheimers
• neurodivergent children
• family dynamics
• personal journey

Keywords

• ADHD
• Alzheimers
• neurodivergent
• family patterns
• behavior analyst

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