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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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 […]
ADHD then and now: notes from my teenage self
People sometimes tell me I can’t have ADHD because I’m too smart and organized. I insist I’m only as organized as I need to be to maintain a base level of sanity, not to mention cleanliness and financial security. It just so happens I need to create a lot of intentional, concrete systems to keep the […]