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 […]
Tag: decluttering
Organizing & ADHD: what’s in my library?
A reader recently asked: do you have any resources for decluttering or journaling with ADHD? What a wonderful question to be asked! I write often about organizing because I find cluttered, messy spaces stressful and overstimulating. A chaotic environment begets a chaotic mind, and vice versa. I suspect I’m in good company among people with ADHD. […]
Unfortunately, every parenting win springs from impulse control.
An interaction I had with my three-year-old a couple months ago blew me away. I should’ve been delighted. Instead, I felt deeply sad. And I knew I couldn’t say a thing. We’d talked about his books before. He had too many to fit on his shelves. One day, he looked at me and said, “Mommy, […]