The following is a personal essay that reflects the opinions and experiences of its author. June 12, 2025 In the weeks since officials from the U.S. Department of…
Read more “Autism Registry Fears Are Prompting Patients to Cancel Appointments”Unreliable. Unpredictable. Unfathomable. These are the qualities of an untrustworthy person – qualities I lived and breathed while (trying) to manage my undiagnosed ADHD. ADHD – especially untreated…
Read more “I Learned I Couldn’t Trust Myself, Then I Found I Had Undiagnosed ADHD.”My daughter shouts at me every day, and sometimes I shout right back. ADHD gives me plenty of skills I can model for my kids, but good frustration…
Read more “My Child’s Short Fuse Lights My Short Fuse.”Losing track of time – while a maddening manifestation of ADHD time blindness – is not a hopeless certainty. From alarms and task chunking to time-estimation exercises, the…
Read more “Losing Track of Time? 8 Ways to End ADHD Time Blindness”“Call a dog by a name enough times and he will eventually respond to it.” I read these words shortly after I was diagnosed with ADHD at age…
Read more “Girls with ADHD Need to Hear You Say These 5 Things”Our descent down the rabbit hole of in-app purchasing started innocently enough. My youngest child, Luca, asked me to let him spend $1.99 of his pocket-money to buy…
Read more “The Expensive Lessons We’ve Learned About In-App Purchases”The following is a personal essay, and not a medical recommendation endorsed by ADDitude. For more information about treatment, speak with your physician. Since October 2022, thousands of…
Read more “The Case for Reclassifying ADHD Stimulants”My 9-year-old son has always been a firework, from the very second of his surprise existence. If my pregnancy test could have displayed two zigzags instead of straight…
Read more “My Husband and Son Were Diagnosed with ADHD — on the Same Day”Dear Neurotypicals, When I reveal that I have ADHD, I often hear about how “brave” I am for being so “open” and “vulnerable.” Granted, I like hearing that…
Read more “Dear Neurotypicals: I Don’t Disclose My ADHD for Fun”To live with unmanaged ADHD is to face chaotic fires that threaten to burn our sense of self-efficacy and damage our connection with loved ones, and which we…
Read more “How Self-Awareness Can Extinguish ADHD’s Little Fires”I have a pretty cool job. A few years ago, I was sitting in an office at Velcro International. They needed a creative ad that would persuade their…
Read more On the Awesomeness of ADHD CreativityWhen my husband and I published a book called ADHD is Awesome we knew we’d have some explaining to do. After all, so much of ADHD is not……
Read more Helping Your Kids Find the “Awesome” in ADHDIn my first year of college, I found myself with a brand new problem: I was totally unable to write an essay. My professor had given us clear…
Read more “A PSA for College Students with ADHD: Just Write a Crappy Draft.”I was 15 when I experienced my first overstimulation meltdown. I was at the mall with my family, fresh out of an argument with my dad over dental…
Read more “When ADHD Overstimulation Meltdowns Happen, Give Us Grace – and Space”I discovered my ADHD indirectly, thanks to my 20-year-old daughter’s TikTok. As she listed 25 symptoms of inattentive ADHD, with examples from her life, I saw myself mirrored…
Read more From Self-Loathing to Self-Discovery: How a Late Diagnosis Changed My LifeAt first glance, some of my ADHD traits make me very ill-suited to my job as a college lecturer. My slippery focus and shoddy working memory make the…
Read more “How ADHD Makes Me a Better Teacher”At first glance, some of my ADHD traits make me very ill-suited to my job as a college lecturer. My slippery focus and shoddy working memory make the…
Read more “How ADHD Makes Me a Better Teacher”Gus Walz was appointed an unintentional ambassador for neurodivergent youth during the third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 21. Millions of Americans watched…
Read more Gus Walz Is the Unintentional Ambassador of Neurodivergent Youth We All NeedI am wildly creative, surprisingly good with a paintbrush, and skilled with words. I know how to make jewelry, soap, candles, and pretty paper. I know how to…
Read more “From Bowling-Alley Bartender to Cleopatra Waitress: My Story of ADHD Job Hopping”“The reality is that, while Maria is clearly a cognitively bright young lady, she wouldn’t necessarily be considered gifted in any particular area.” “In talking with Maria, it…
Read more “’The Bright Underachiever:’ Cruelties I Heard Growing Up with Undiagnosed ADHD”
