My journalling prompt says I should unblock myself. Just write and see what comes out. That seems right about now. I’m feeling very blocked.
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Hypercrash
Hyperfocus. This is one of the first things I learned about ADHD. It describes our ability as ADHDers to lose ourselves to hobbies or research, forsaking everything around us, sometimes for hours at a time. It’s how I lose entire days to games, creating music and sometimes even to work. But it can come at a price.
Continue reading “Hypercrash”How did I end up helpful?!
Since diagnosis I’ve noticed an improvement in my mental clarity. I feel like I can do more, fit more into my days and I notice a whole lot more than I ever did before. Having more mental clarity has allowed me to see the world beyond my immediate self in a way that I’ve never seen it before.
Continue reading “How did I end up helpful?!”Rabbit holes
Obsessing. Hyperfocusing. Getting lost to distractions. Being a “research junkie”. These are all behaviours (or a single behaviour by many different names) that a lot of people with ADHD probably resonate with. I know I regularly do, and today is absolutely no exception.
Continue reading “Rabbit holes”I can see into the future
For my entire adult life I have basically coasted by on very little planning or forethought. I’ve been “spontaneous” and “fun” according to those around me, but more often than I care to think about that’s landed me in some awful places. Straight up ignoring the fact that I’m spending more than I earn? Leaving the hard work of tidying up until “later” – knowing full well that even when I do tidy up it won’t last? Knowing that even if I start saving money there’ll still be some bill that will come up that will smash any accumulated nest egg?
Continue reading “I can see into the future”ADHD Symptoms 101 – Time blindness
Time is a wonderful human construct. It allows us to organise all manner of aspects of our life to the very second. A daily stand up, a project kick off, a dentist appointment, lunch with my mum. It allows us to carve off distinct parts of the future so that we can use them in productive ways. So what happens when you have poor executive function and there is zero distinction between 5 minutes from now and 5 hours from now?
Continue reading “ADHD Symptoms 101 – Time blindness”My ADHD Toolkit: Tody App
There have been so many folks reaching out to me over the last few days, in support, in solidarity, or in search of some extra advice as they start their own journey. That’s super touching and super rewarding, and it’s fuelled my desire to share more of my own story, and to share some of the things I am finding useful to get through each day.
This is the first of (hopefully) many posts detailing one of the most important things for me during this transition to “new normal”: My ADHD toolkit. It consists of an ever-changing, updating, growing, morphing set of tips, tricks and tools that I use to manage myself day to day. Today I’m going to introduce you to the app that’s helping me become a domestic superhero, Tody.
Continue reading “My ADHD Toolkit: Tody App”ADHD symptoms 101 – Object permanence
What is ADHD?
That’s a really big question, and I couldn’t cover it in a single post even if I wanted to. So I’m going to try and break it down into a bunch of different posts about some of the things I personally struggle with. I’m starting today with object permanence.
Continue reading “ADHD symptoms 101 – Object permanence”…so I just freeze
I fell in to tech, really. I enjoyed it. I was good at it. I am good at it. But sometimes things get hard. So I just freeze.
This is not the way I’d recommend dealing with things getting hard, technical, or difficult. It’s not ever been a strategy that’s worked for me, so I found myself questioning:
Why?
Continue reading “…so I just freeze”Trauma is trauma
You ever have one of those days where you receive a message that feels like it is aimed directly at you? Yup. That’s me today.
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My ADHD Playlist 