I’m so excited to share this guest post from Claudia D. Claudia (who writes under a pseudonym) graciously allowed me to adapt the following from a thread she posted to Twitter in January 2019. It provides a raw and important window into how ADHD — and the decision to treat it — can impact families. […]
Category: Marriage & Partner Relationships
Reframing household tension when others’ ADHD negatively impacts us
Editor’s note: this post was updated on June 9, 2021 to include audio narration, remove ableist language from the title, and make minor readability edits. Life with ADHD gets really hard sometimes. That includes our own ADHD and all the ADHD under our roof. We’re all human. Every once in a while, the ADHDers in […]
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 […]