25. When You Say Too Much: ADHD, Oversharing and the Room Going Quiet

Have you ever answered a simple question with the whole real answer — and watched the room go a particular kind of quiet? Have you ever lain awake at 2am running back one thing you said in a group chat three years ago, certain everyone clocked it the way you did? Have you ever walked out of a room having already decided you were the too-much one before anyone said a word?

There's a reason your brain gave the director's cut when everyone else gave three sentences. It's not the reason you've been telling yourself.

CHAPTERS

00:16 — The plastic chair, the room going quiet, and knowing before you know why

00:46 — Six weeks postpartum, new town, no family, no one to talk to but her husband

01:11 — The things about babies nobody says out loud because they're 'obvious'

02:33 — Why she joined a mother's group, and the morning it all went sideways

03:27 — Twenty minutes late, sweaty, in her husband's vomit-swapped T-shirt

04:13 — Bows, baptism outfits and homemade plates: the prep she didn't know about

05:29 — Three questions. Name, baby's name, the birth. Easy.

06:07 — What recent trauma does when someone kindly asks you to tell it

08:00 — The Wi-Fi freeze: watching the room drop out in real time