Sometimes, I don’t know if I’m managing my ADHD effectively. After all, the right type and dose of stimulant medication should feel pretty unobtrusive. It doesn’t make ADHD’ers feel drugged, hyped up, or otherwise not ourselves. Once the novelty wears off, we don’t sit around and say, “wow, things seem awfully normal around here!” Those of us with supportive, […]
Month: June 2016
Guest Post: Women with ADHD — a letter to my younger self
About the author: S.B. Castañeda writes about the struggles of #ADHDwomen on her blog, Adulting With ADHD. Dear Younger Self, You aren’t feeling very good about life right now. In fact, if I recall correctly, between performance issues at work and losing those music festival tickets, you feel the very, very opposite of good. Here’s […]
Unfortunately, every parenting win springs from impulse control.
An interaction I had with my three-year-old a couple months ago blew me away. I should’ve been delighted. Instead, I felt deeply sad. And I knew I couldn’t say a thing. We’d talked about his books before. He had too many to fit on his shelves. One day, he looked at me and said, “Mommy, […]