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You Don't Get My ADHD

Stop Shaming Your ADHD Kids, Choose Love Instead

It never fails to surprise me just what some parents will do to shame bad behaviour out of their children. I’m going to preface this post with a ‘not all parents, some kids are evil, blah blah bollocks’, but those are not the parents I am talking about. If your child is off the rails […]

You Don't Get My ADHD

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

For years I have had issues with receiving feedback. I don’t know that anyone likes to receive negative feedback or criticism, but for those of us with ADHD it is a lot more intense than what you may experience. It goes 2 ways for me, I either become incredibly defeated and turn to mush or

You Don't Get My ADHD

Crypto-Driven Accountability

How is your productivity? Are you efficiently managing your time? Are you overwhelmed by deadlines and being pulled in multiple directions? Are you bored with the tasks at hand so you put them off until the last minute? Let me tell you a story… When I was in elementary school my dad started paying me

You Don't Get My ADHD

ADHD and Procrastination

I write this post as I am supposed to be working on a different task (what else is new?). It is not easy to explain to someone non-ADHD how my ADHD brain works. They just don’t get it: “What do you mean you can’t do it? Just sit down and do it.” “Why are you

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