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The Laura Dowling Experience

The Laura Dowling Experience

著者： Laura Dowling
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Conversations about health, science, wellness, life, love, sex and everything in-between. Laura is a Pharmacist who loves to talk to interesting people about their unique life and work experiences. See @fabulouspharmacist on instagram for more information.

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  • The Last Thing My Wife Asked Me To Do with Daniel Buckley #185

    The Last Thing My Wife Asked Me To Do with Daniel Buckley #185
    2026/09/03
    Daniel Buckley was thirty-two before he had a name for what was going on in his head. For as long as he could remember he had been restless, discontented, unable to sit still or hold his focus on anything that didn’t grip him - and he had simply assumed that was him. That was the way he was, and the way life was.His wife Simone saw it long before he did. For more than a decade she told him something wasn’t right, that he couldn’t rest, that he had no structure. He wasn’t ready to hear it. The day before she died, after years of illness, she went through his symptoms one by one and asked him to get help for his ADHD.Daniel tells Laura what happened next - the newspaper article that felt like a tap on the shoulder, the Irish clinics that never rang him back, the trip to England to be assessed at all. He is open about drinking to escape thoughts he had no other way of managing, about the day he stopped, and about the ordinary moment months later when he heard his son laughing outside an open window and realised he had never felt peace before. It’s also the story of what he built out of it: a service designed, in his words, to get people to a clinician in weeks rather than years.🔑 Key PointsHe spent thirty-two years assuming that was just who he wasRestless, discontented, unable to focus — Daniel had no framework for any of it until he was assessed at thirty-two.Simone saw it more than a decade before he accepted itHe only heard it the day before she died, when she went through his symptoms and asked him to get help.Undiagnosed ADHD and alcohol are closely linkedDaniel describes drinking to escape feelings he couldn’t regulate. He stopped in August 2022, so he could be the father his son deserved.There was no route to a diagnosis in IrelandPublic waiting lists ran to years, and not one of the private clinics he rang or emailed came back to him. He was assessed in England instead.He chose therapy and coaching over medicationHaving stopped drinking, he worked weekly on emotional regulation, learning to recognise emotions he’d never had names for.Peace arrived as an ordinary momentMonths after his diagnosis he heard his son laughing with friends through an open window and felt, for the first time, that he was all right.A diagnosis is a turning point, not an end pointThe piece of paper changes nothing on its own. What matters is the understanding and the support that come after it.He built the service he couldn’t findADHD Now offers access to a clinician within seven days and has grown to over a hundred clinicians across ADHD and autism care.📚 ResourcesADHD NowDaniel’s online ADHD assessment and support serviceAutismCareThe autism and AuDHD assessment service built alongside itADHD IrelandThe national charity, with support groups and informationSamaritans IrelandFree, confidential support, any time, on 116 123⏱️ Timestamps02:54 — Diagnosed at thirty-two, and the bottlenecks he hit03:38 — “That’s the way I am, that’s the way life is”04:24 — Illness, Joey’s arrival, and Simone going on dialysis07:33 — Drinking to escape, and the day he stopped09:38 — A decade of Simone telling him something was wrong10:05 — The day before she died: “please get help for your ADHD”11:45 — The newspaper article that felt like a tap on the shoulder12:23 — No one called back, so he went to England16:55 — “A diagnosis is not the end point. That’s the turning point.”19:35 — Hearing his son laugh, and feeling peace for the first time21:12 — The stranger outside the hospital who became his business partner40:00 — Advice for young people, and what he thinks life meansThanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Bitesize Moment: "Laughter in the Darkest Room." — Dympna Little on carrying grief with humour

    Bitesize Moment: "Laughter in the Darkest Room." — Dympna Little on carrying grief with humour
    2026/09/01

    In this bitesize moment pulled from the Laura Dowling Experience back catalogue, comedian and content creator Dympna Little shares how humour helped her family carry her mother's terminal illness and final days.


    She describes laughing together even in the palliative care room, the moment her mother noticed and said "it's lovely," and the voice message her mother recorded that became her legacy. Tender, warm and bittersweet.


    🔑Key Points

    • How humour can hold a family together through the hardest time

    • Why laughter and grief are not opposites

    • The moment her mother noticed them laughing and said "it's lovely"

    • The voice message her mother left, and what legacy can look like


    💛 If you're grieving, be gentle with yourself. There's no right way to do it.


    🎧 Listen to the full episode here.

    Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations.

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  • How Non-Speakers Are Finally Being Heard with Anna Lechleiter #184

    How Non-Speakers Are Finally Being Heard with Anna Lechleiter #184
    2026/08/27
    Anna Lechleiter works with people who have never been able to speak, and who have spent their lives being treated as though they had nothing to say. She is a Spelling to Communicate practitioner, and her job is to give non-speakers a way to tell the world what has been going on in their heads all along.She explains why speech is a motor problem rather than a thinking one: the words are there, but the brain cannot reliably drive the body that produces them. That distinction changes how non-speaking people are assessed, educated and spoken to, because almost every standard autism assessment measures motor control and reports the result as intelligence.Anna talks Laura through what happens in a session, from stencil boards to a keyboard, and tells the story that changed her mind completely: a young man called Caoimh, a letter board, and a freezing afternoon when he spelled out that he hoped it would snow. The last stretch belongs to the spellers themselves, as Anna reads the words of Max, Caoimh and Megha in their own language.🔑 Key PointsNon-speaking is a motor problem, not a thinking oneThe words are there. The difficulty is the brain reliably getting the body to produce them, which Anna describes as a brain-body disconnect rather than an absence of understanding.Spelling to Communicate moves communication out of the fine motorSpeech, writing, texting and sign language all depend on fine motor control, so S2C uses the gross motor instead: a pointing motion towards letters on a board.Assessments measure motor control and report it as intelligenceBecause the tests need reliable motor responses, people who cannot produce them are recorded as profoundly intellectually disabled, and that label follows them for life.Most non-speakers can already readText is everywhere, on signs, subtitles and packaging, and spellers have usually absorbed far more than anyone assumed. That is why sessions start with age-appropriate material rather than the basics.Progress is built like any other motor skillNew neural pathways are created and then myelinated through repetition, so lessons change every session and words are never spelled twice, keeping the focus on the motor rather than the answer.The spellers make the argument better than anyoneMax, Caoimh and Megha describe apraxia, sensory overwhelm and their own ambitions. Keith's line, that his mind works perfectly but the messages get mixed up on the way to his body, sums up the conversation.📚 ResourcesPALZ (Play and Language Zone) — Anna's hub in Naas, Co. KildareSpelling to Communicate at PALZ — how the method is taught in IrelandI-ASC — the International Association for Spelling as CommunicationElizabeth Vosseller — the speech-language pathologist who developed S2CAsIAm — Ireland's national autism charity, information and support line⏱️ Timestamps00:00 — Max's message to the world02:18 — The colleague's brother who suddenly had a voice03:05 — What Spelling to Communicate actually is07:24 — How assessments measure motor and report intelligence09:37 — How many non-speakers there are in Ireland10:10 — Inside a first session at the hub17:21 — Neuroplasticity and building a brand-new motor skill24:50 — Stencils, letter boards and moving to a keyboard36:23 — Anna's ABA background, and why she moved away from it44:01 — Keith, the letter board and "I hope it snows"48:55 — Max, Keith and Megha, in their own words53:54 — Art, an exhibition and the meaning of lifeThanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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