Marriage & Partner Relationships

Married to ADHD: yes, we can improve hurtful and embarrassing behavior

Editor’s note: an older version of this post first appeared on December 19, 2018. We ADHDers often don’t realize we’re making a scene until it’s too late. This can both infuriate and embarrass our partners. Other couples look like the perfect team at social functions. They send signals on their own frequency and they save […]

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Marriage & Partner Relationships

The ADHD marriage: using secret signals for bad behavior

Sometimes — maybe even most times — ADHDers don’t realize we’re making a scene until it’s too late. This can humiliate and infuriate our spouses, especially at social functions. Other couples look like the perfect team, sending and receiving signals on their own frequency. They save each other from discomfort rather than tossing each other […]

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Essays Social Relationships Women & ADHD

On being “one of the guys,” and growing up as a girl with ADHD

For the first 30 years of my life, I acted like one of the guys. My first friends were boys. I quit Girl Scouts when I learned it was nothing like Boy Scouts and we would never make wooden race cars. I can’t remember having more than a couple social plans with all-girl groups in […]

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