ADHD x AANHPI Narratives | AANHPI Heritage Month Panel
What does it mean to be AANHPI, neurodivergent, and trying to figure out who you are, in a culture that wasn't built for either?
For many of us, the AANHPI experience comes loaded with expectations: work hard, stay quiet, don't stand out. ADHD doesn't exactly cooperate with that script. The impulsivity, the rejection sensitivity, the hyperfocus that goes everywhere except where your family thinks it should — it creates a particular kind of tension that most spaces don't make room to talk about.
This panel does.
Join us for an honest conversation with AANHPI voices at the intersection of neurodivergence and identity. We're talking about what it's actually like to navigate diagnosis, family, culture, and community when your brain works differently, and the people around you have a complicated relationship with that difference.
What we'll get into:
🧠 The AANHPI experience of getting diagnosed — late, dismissed, or not at all
🌏 How cultural expectations shaped (or collided with) how we understand our own brains
💬 Stigma, silence, and what it cost us to go undiagnosed
🤝 What community, visibility, and representation actually mean to us
This isn't a polished highlight reel. It's a real conversation — messy, honest, and long overdue.
Featured Panelists
Eugene Yao @adhdfounder (he/him) Kiwi Chinese | ADHD
Eugene is an ADHD content creator who grew his Instagram to 700K followers in five months, reaching over 50 million unique accounts — with a mission to make people feel less weird and lonely with their symptoms. He's one of the most recognized voices in the ADHD community, turning his own lived experience into content that genuinely helps people feel seen.
Farah Jamil, MHA, CEC, CALC, ACC (she/her) South Asian | ADHD
Farah is an Executive and ADHD Coach, Ivy League graduate, and Founder of Muslim ADHDers. With over 15 years of global leadership experience across government, nonprofits, and academia, she's a recognized speaker and fierce advocate for underserved communities at the intersection of neurodiversity, culture, and identity.
Simone Grace Seol (she/her) Korean | ADHD
Simone comes from multiple generations of Korean shamanic workers. She built a globally respected coaching business, and her ADHD brain has been the engine behind it all. Simone has been invited to teach all over the world, and has raised over a million dollars for philanthropic and environmental projects from Hawaii to Gaza. Her superpower is helping messy, brilliant, creative humans build businesses that work with their brains, not against them. She hosts the podcast Liberatory Business, and lives in Seoul with her husband and son.
Moderated by
Christal Wang, ACC (she/her) Chinese-Canadian | ADHD
Chris is the co-founder & CEO of Shimmer. Diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, she built Shimmer because she couldn't find support that actually worked for her brain. Forbes 30 Under 30, ICF-credentialed coach, and deeply invested in the communities she's part of — including AAPI, LGBTQ+, women, and neurodivergent.
About the organizers
Shimmer is the leading ADHD coaching platform — an all-in-one space for 1:1 coaching, community, body doubling, and learning resources built specifically for ADHDers. 80,000+ coaching sessions and counting. shimmer.care
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