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Structured Success
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Structured Success
@StructuredSucc
ADHD Coach & Academic Strategist | Guiding ADHD, autistic, and neurodivergent clients through lived experience | they/her | #AuDHD | #ActuallyAutistic
- A lot of ADHD'ers have a serious case of 'out-of-sight, out-of-mind' where we are far more likely to forget about things we can't see. Unfortunately, keeping everything visible all the time isn't always the answer as they can quickly start to blend together into piles of doom
- People with ADHD will seriously go hyperfocusing on something for 14 hours, getting a week's worth of work done, and then the next day be like "Why can't I do anything? I'm so lazy"
- The ADHD urge to throw everything out and start from scratch because you've become overwhelmed by your own disorganization and clutter
- Can we all acknowledge just how much executive functioning it takes to choose, make, and eat food? It's a lot.
- Something I feel might be a relatable experience for a lot of people with ADHD is the constant feeling like we're about to get our lives together... and then we just can't. We have a few good days. Everything is going well and, as quickly as it came, it falls apart again (1/6)
- ADHD'ers: *does 40 hours of work in an 8-hours hyperfocus and urgency fueled bender* Them: This is amazing! You have so much potential. Here's some more work. The very same ADHD'ers: *struggles for 8 hours to get the executive function to do a simple task* Them: God, you're lazy
- Replying to @MiamiPDDoes it come with de-escalation, mental health, and autism intervention training?
- When I hear ADHD'ers say they used to be able to do so much more than they are now, one of the first things I ask is about how their executive functioning was supported then and how it's being supported now. Usually it's changed, often in a major way (1/2)
- Most ADHD'ers have a weaker short-term memory, which contributes to forgetting or misplacing things. One impact we don't talk about enough is forgetting how we FELT, even earlier that day. Am I feeling better? I don't know. I don't remember how I WAS feeling
- I truly love ADHD working memory issues because each morning I get to play a fun memory game called: Did I Forget to Take my Meds or Did I Forget I Already Took my Meds? My favourite part is the prizes:
- Every ADHD'er at some point: "What if I don't really have ADHD?" What if I just have a complex series of personal flaws that map on to ADHD, experiences that are incredibly relatable to other people with ADHD, and every failing in my life is entirely and unequivocally my fault?
- It's pretty obvious when ADHD coping strategies come from ADHD'ers... NTs: Just do one thing at a time ADHD'ers: Write down what you're working on, put a mark beside it. If things come up, write them down, but return to the marked task. If you need to change task, move the mark
- What society tells me I should be: A full-functional adult What I actually am: A pile of coping strategies in a trench coat