I end a lot of days feeling like I got nothing done. Like my efforts were not enough. Moms with (or without, let’s be honest) ADHD: I bet some of you can relate. I push back against this feeling all the time. It’s important to me to feel like I’m enough, but my sense of industriousness […]
Tag: memory supports
Want to remember everything? Write it on the wall.
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 […]
Now vs. Not Now: keeping perspective when parenting a toddler
There’s a cliche out there about ADHD’ers having two kinds of time: Now and Not Now. This may equip us to relate well to our toddlers. For them, going inside for dinner feels like going inside forever. Be careful, though — it also equips us to act more like our toddlers. When I first experienced stimulant medication, I remember […]