ADHD women are invisible in the world. Not because you can't see us, but because you can't SEE us clearly. Many of us live in the margins because we have never found our footing. Watching everyone else seemingly get everything they want and feeling like nobody notices...
Are you low maintenance? I’ve been low maintenance for so long I don’t even know how to be any other way. I used to wonder how I got here, so obnoxiously people-pleasing and pathetic. Recently, I went into Venmo to do my billing and somehow I sent money to a...
****This is the Twelve Days of ADHD Christmas - COVID edition. Most of us have been cooped up since March of 2020, so we're feeling more anxious and irritable than ever. Despite how it may seem, I really do enjoy the holidays. I enjoy the community giving aspect of...
Some people just naturally do the thing, whatever it is. I call them, “doers.” My husband is a doer. He wanted to build a murphy bed so he showed me a kit he found online. Within a day he’d ordered the kit, and within another day a bunch of lumber and boxes appeared...
I'm finally starting to figure out what's what after a lifetime of ADHD and anxiety. I remember one Father's Day my mom put me in a white sun dress to visit my dad. During the picnic I got grass and food on my new white dress. As we drove home I looked down at my...
When ADHD runs in the family things are never boring. You hear all manner of colorful conversations at family gatherings. Take this one from a few months ago between my brother and myself. "Liz, those pills aren't fixing anything. It's basically a crutch." When he...
Lazy is a word I hear a lot. ADHD adults are often mislabeled as lazy, so much so it's a bit of a trigger word. Knowing everything I do about executive functions, I've still described myself this way. I don't dislike the word as much as I used to though, because I now...
Finding Your ADHD blind spots is difficult because the very nature of the condition creates the barriers. For example, I have this weird sort of visceral reaction to receiving help or support. When the Hubs offers to help me make scrambled eggs, I immediately think,...
There are moms, and then there are Moms with ADHD. Anyone who tells you being a mom is sunshine and rainbows all the time is either lying or delusional. Only other moms with ADHD can truly understand the complexity of our situation. There have been some really...
CW: Eating issues are very common in ADHD women. If this is a topic that is upsetting to you, feel free to click away. The ADHD - OCD connection is often overlooked. Which sucks because it's a conversation we need to be having. We talk about ADHD using words like,...
