Decided I should update my article Wonderful Websites for Women with ADHD, mostly because I was over on Pinterest and I noticed the graphic above was very.....old. Below is a list of experts I try to update more often than this article. The expert downloadable...
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...
I'd never considered the complicated nature of ADHD, attachment styles, and relationships until 2016. I'm not a hugger Everyone who knows me is aware of this. I don’t hug anyone except my husband, and he makes me do it as a joke. Two years ago my brother and his wife...
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,...
Thirteen months into a pandemic and this article about ADHD women and productivity shame is even more relevant than it was in 2019. This is actually an issue I've spent a lot of time thinking about recently, so much so that I wrote an article about spending less time...
