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Six Transitions That Help When I Get Stuck
"In spite of my best efforts at planning, in spite of meds, in spite of workouts or sunny walks with the dog or naps…I reach a point just about every afternoon where I suddenly run out."
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A Free Downloadable ADHD Self-Care Bingo Zine
Fold it up, put it in your pocket, and every once in a while during the day you can mark off things as you do them. Use a red pen, or get some little stickers, or maybe even an actual bingo stamp to mark things off as you do them. The prize for getting five-in-a-row? You’re that much healthier. WIN!
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Not everything can be blamed on ADHD.
But more than you think: a case study. One of the reasons the internet is saturated with ADHD content is that along with improvements in the diagnostic methods there has been a huge amount of communication, research, and shared experiences that reveal challenges far beyond the “I forget things and
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The Maxims of ADHD
A lot of maxims, truisms, corollaries, and such got left on the metaphorical cutting room floor. In the interest of completeness and inclusion, here are some of the related phenomena that have epitomized my experience of ADHD:
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SCIENCE! Shows Notebooks are Best for ADHD Brains
The TL;DR for those who are not quite as brain nerdy is that between taking notes by typing, writing notes on a tablet, or making notes in a physical notebook, the most brain activity (related to comprehension and retention) came from good old dead-tree-and-ink.
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The Creator Economy is Rigged Against ADHDers
We thrive on novelty. An interesting niche is just a dopamine surge away from becoming a cage, a pit, a trap! We may carry our hyperfocus-enabled expertise with us, but we don’t want to share it any more — not when there’s that Shiny New Subject that we’re learning about.
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How to Keep Chaotic Clutter from the Trap of Horizontal Surfaces.
Tables, desks, counters — they are magnets for the detritus of life. This is how you fight back. Look at your desk. Or your dining room table. Or the end table next to the couch you’re sitting in. Here, I’ll show you mine: Pretty cluttered, right? And it is
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Everything I Needed to Know About Managing Adult ADHD I Learned From Star Trek
I am the voyages of the Braincraft Gray. My lifelong mission: to eke out good life and well-thought-out decisions. To boldly go where my brain has never gone before… (Cue theremin and whooshing spaceship noises!)
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“Breakdice”: Offloading Your Executive Function to Recharge Your Brain
#NoAI required; just physics, paper, and tape.
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The ADHD Every Day Carry, One Year Later
"Yes, there were still times that I forgot something — my wallet, my meds, my notebook. But here’s the thing: it was never because I’d forgotten to bring along the little satchel that holds my EDC."
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The Axioms of ADHD
The first principles discovered in three years of observing my brain.
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The ODD Way I'm Leveraging my ADHD to Stop Being Late to Everything
A little inner competition against the alarm and my time agnosia doesn't matter