Highly Functional
22. Missed, Masked & Medicated: ADHD, Autism & Medicinal Cannabis
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Part One is why so many women and gender-diverse people carry a late ADHD or autism diagnosis, the "Masking Tax" that comes with decades of performing fine, and how eerily similar trauma symptoms can look to neurodivergence on paper — hypervigilance, scanning a room, the lot.
Part Two picks up where that leaves a lot of us: reaching for medicinal cannabis to cope, often years before any…