A while back a reader wrote to ask about screen time. “It’s very difficult,” they lamented, “to single-task when I’m at a computer.” No kidding. Since I do most of my work in front of a screen — and some of it even on that god-forsaken attention-stealer social media — I know this territory well. […]
Tag: ADHD
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 […]
How I keep perspective on failure with Adult ADHD
Everyone experiences failure from time to time. I suspect we ADHDers experience more than our fair share. Maybe that’s what leads us down a troubling path I see too often. People begin to see failure as inevitable, especially when it comes to getting organized. They’ll tell me “Nothing works” or “Yeah, I tried that [tool/app/system]. […]