People with ADHD forget a lot — a lot of things, and very often. We frustrate ourselves. Even worse, we frustrate, hurt, and disappoint the people we love. ADHD is cruelly egalitarian, in that we forget our spouse’s birthday as easily as our dry cleaning. Even if we lived in total isolation, we’d still generate the same […]
Category: Task Management
How (and why) to tame your hyperfocus
People with ADHD can achieve almost superhuman levels of focus (referred to as hyperfocus) in some situations, yet none at all in others. That’s because ADHD isn’t an attention deficit, but a broken attention regulation system. Hyperfocus is our secret superpower. Often, it’s also our undoing. Capable of an amazing state of flow, we’re unstoppable, and […]
Stop waiting for a good time to fix it
I’ve been looking forward to preschool. First and foremost, I feel compelled to point out, because R. will love it. He’s smart and extroverted and he recently asked me to read Maisy Goes to Preschool four times in a row. I’ve also been counting the days for my own sake. I feel totally scattered, behind […]