This week two of my high school friends, Marcus and Jasper, joined me to talk about their experiences with disabilities. Marcus has a learning disability and Jasper was born with cerebral palsy. They have both faced many challenges which are quite unique from one another, but as brothers (twins to be specific) they share a unique perspective and understanding of what one another has gone through. We discuss what challenges they have faced, how their disability has effected their view of themselves and how that has changed with time, and misconceptions surround disabilities.

In this week’s episode we discuss some of the stigma around ADHD medications, explain how these medications work, and talk about our own thoughts and experiences with ADHD medication.

In this weeks episode we discuss coping mechanisms we use at work. How Jada balances her volunteer jobs with school and learning disabilities. And we discuss how we are managing work and school during the stress of the pandemic.

In this episode Jada shares her experience of being discriminated against by a professor, how she handled it and how it effected her. We also discuss what it is like to share our diagnosis with friends and peers, how they react and how that makes us feel. It can be hard to share something so personal about yourself when you are afraid it might not be responded to with kindness, we hope that sharing this makes someone with a similar experience feel less alone and we hope that people without learning disabilities can come to understand how their reaction might effect someone.

In this episode we talk about accommodations in university from our own experiences. We walk you through the process of what it was like for us to get our accommodations and discuss our experiences with having them in university and how they made a difference in our education.

In this episode we discuss the challenges we faced transitioning from high school to university. We explain how we learnt to cope, and offer advice for students with learning disabilities who are also having a hard time with the transition.

In this episode we discuss what it was like for us going through elementary school and high school with learning disabilities, both diagnosed and undiagnosed. We also touch on the biases surrounding ADHD, particularly in girls, and how that leads to underdiagnosis and feelings of inadequacy.

This is an introduction to our podcast about our experiences growing up with learning disabilities. In this episode we introduce ourselves, explain the inspiration behind the podcast and talk about how we got diagnosed.