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Navigating Disability
Welcome to the Navigating Disability Podcast Show!! Your hosts, Kate Read and Jenn Abbott are committed to changing the narrative around 'normal' and 'ability' and look so forward to sharing our weekly guests with you! Get ready to be inspired, empowered and enlivened as we dive into education, lived experiences, expert advice, behind the scenes on political movements and how YOU, our listeners can THRIVE within your community!
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Navigating Disability
Lost in Plain Sight: An ADHD Journey to Self-Discovery
In this reflective episode, Navigating Disability sit down with Abdul Haseeb, a figure whose personal story has inspired a global conversation.
Known as Pakistan's first ADHD coach, Haseeb's true identity is that of a neurodiversity storyteller and mental health advocate who speaks from the heart of lived experience.
Haseeb’s relationship with ADHD began at 14, with a diagnosis that came thanks to his uncle's observation. Growing up in an environment with no framework or support for neurodivergence, his diagnosis was a label without a guidebook.
He was left to navigate the complexities of his own mind alone, facing what he calls "the ADHD effect": an internal force that constantly drove him to leave his comfort zone, yet also trapped him in a cycle of impossibly high standards and relentless self-criticism.
This conversation delves into the intimate and often unseen emotional landscape of that journey. Haseeb opens up about the weight of those self-imposed expectations, the stress that became a familiar shadow, and his long, deliberate path toward self-acceptance.
He shares the shift in learning to "bomb" himself with positivity—a conscious, daily practice of countering ingrained negativity with radical self-kindness.
Now staying in Perth, with a perspective shaped by connections across cultures and continents, Haseeb discusses the universal themes of finding one's place in a world not designed for you. He also touches on the origins of the ADHD Rebel Center not as a service, but as a concept born from a community's need for recognition and understanding.
Connect with Haseeb through his socials:
- Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/adhd_haseeb/
- LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/haseebwaqar/
- Email – adhdcoachingwithhaseeb@gmail.com