ADHD & academics Women & ADHD

“Too smart” for ADHD: a note from myself at 17

Editor’s note: a previous version of this post appeared on April 2, 2015. At various points in my adult life, people have told me I can’t have ADHD. I’m too smart. Too organized. I’ll set aside the insidious myth about ADHD and intelligence for another day. However, the upshot is, someone can appear “smart” and […]

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Essays Mental Health

How I keep perspective on failure with Adult ADHD

Everyone experiences failure from time to time. I suspect we ADHDers experience more than our fair share. Maybe that’s what leads us down a troubling path I see too often. People begin to see failure as inevitable, especially when it comes to getting organized. They’ll tell me “Nothing works” or “Yeah, I tried that [tool/app/system]. […]

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