Sorry, I Missed This: The Everything Guide to ADHD and Relationships with Cate Osborn

About Sorry, I Missed This: The Everything Guide to ADHD and Relationships with Cate Osborn

It can be hard to navigate relationships when you have ADHD. Host Cate Osborn has ADHD, a background in sex education, and a whole lot of questions like “How do I know what I want out of a relationship? How do I remember my friends exist? What can I do to handle conflict better?” Tune in to Sorry, I Missed This to learn about topics like social skills, boundaries, communication, intimacy, and sex. Join Cate in unpacking the taboo, painful, and often hilarious challenges of being in a relationship when you have ADHD.

Publisher

Cate Osborn, Understood.org

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jun 2024

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

14 of 61 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The ADHD safety net hiding inside a kink power dynamic

   Kink isn’t required to get something real out of a power dynamic. And for ADHD brains, it might be more than you’d expect Sex and relationship coach Amanda Dames — The Kink Consultant — joins the show to talk about power dynamics and what dominance and submission can actually offer neurodivergent relationships once the stigma gets stripped away. Amanda and Cate start with the basics: what a power dynamic is, why it’s a negotiated role-play and not a real transfer of power, and how submission can function as agency rather than its opposite.  From there, the conversation moves into what this looks like day to day — including a partner who quietly set household rules that ended up calming years of ADHD-driven chaos. And then into harder territory: the difference between structure that helps and control that doesn’t, how to tell the two apart, and what aftercare (a kink community staple) can offer any couple, kinky or not, after a hard moment.

2. 

   9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   I’ve never felt like a good woman: ADHD and femininity

   Cate Osborn interviews Rae Jacobson, journalist and producer, exploring the intersection of ADHD, femininity, and gender expression, offering insights into societal pressures and research on women with ADHD.

3. 

   26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   An Emmy winner’s trick for ADHD idea overload (Live show!)

   Emmy Award-winning Adam Reid shares his strategies for managing ADHD creativity and idea overload with host Cate Osborn in this live interview.

Inside a recent episode

The ADHD safety net hiding inside a kink power dynamic

Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Some of us might overexert ourselves or overcommit to things that we actually can't handle. Can you imagine? No, well, not me. Never. I couldn't be me. That leader type might be able to say, you know, I think we're at capacity for our Saturday. And it's intentional because you're choosing to defer to one person to make the choice. I think that sometimes people hear the word submission and red flags go off. They're taking away my autonomy. They're taking away my power. As somebody who does so much of this work, can you talk a little bit about what it means to voluntarily respond? give someone power and how submission can be an expression of agency. […]

Who has been a guest on Sorry, I Missed This: The Everything Guide to ADHD and Relationships with Cate Osborn

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Rae Jacobson
• Adam Reid
• Christine Hargrove
• Kristen Carder
• Polaris Koi

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

64 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

77 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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Quality

42

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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