ADHD is a misnomer. We don’t have an attention deficit, we have a dysregulation. Many of us struggle for years trying to make sense of what that means. In some ways, it boils down to simple physics. We ADHDers have a lot of inertia. My high school physics teacher delighted in long acronyms. Every once […]
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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 […]
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 […]