Ayesha Madon, a person of color in Australia, shares her experience of growing up with undiagnosed ADHD and how it affected her self-esteem. After getting assessed as an adult, she found a new understanding of her mind and embraced her neurodiversity, using it to enhance her music writing process.
Ayesha Madon thought it was just an ongoing joke — but it turned out to be true. She says everyone around her would joke that she had ADHD as a child, but it wasn’t until she was working with a therapist later in life that she was told to get assessed. "One of the things that led to my low self-esteem was being a person of colour in Australia , and the second one was growing up neurodivergent.
Her school cohort was majority white, and unlike many of the characters, Madon says she didn't drink, smoke or have sex. Her parents had emigrated from India and bought a small catering company to make ends meet. "They built it from the ground up and they didn't even know how to cook," she says. She’s found playing the role of Amerie has been healing.
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