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 […]
Author: Jaclyn Paul
Back to school with (my) ADHD
If you subscribe to my monthly ADHDgram, you know I’ve talked all summer about how lack of structure affects our brains. I began to see it in June: I’d have to cut myself some slack. By the end of July, my ADHD was really dragging me down. During a vacation in August, I realized my […]
Time blindness, ADHD, and those days when parenting just sucks
Editor’s note: this post was updated, including adding audio narration, on October 1, 2020. Every parent goes to bed feeling like a failure sometimes. By design, children push our limits. It makes sense that they would. They know we aren’t going anywhere. They might hold it together all day at school, only to melt down […]