ADHD

Is This You?

You just found out you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD). Now you know why you can never find your keys or why scrubbing all your baseboards with a q-tip feels easier than making one phone call. Now you have an explanation that isn’t that you’re broken, you can’t adult, you’re lazy, you “just need to try harder.”

You feel relief right?

But do you also feel devastated? Is your life of missed appointments and missed opportunities flashing before your eyes? Are you asking “what would my life have been like if I had known this 5 years ago? While I was in school? Before my first job? When I was fighting with my partner so much?”

If you are new to understanding your ADHD, are experiencing a lot of emotions about your past and what to do next, then this website is for you! I help adults who were late-diagnosed with ADHD heal from their past and believe in their future.

Who am I?

Before my diagnosis with ADHD Inattentive Type, I lived in constant, gut-churning fear of being “found out.” I was working in my first professional job. The majority of my duties were making phone calls and coordinating weekly events. The key skills needed were organization and time management.

If you shuddered or had any other physical reaction to reading that, thank you. For someone with undiagnosed ADHD, that job was an uphill battle against my functioning, and also incredibly damaging to my mental health.

Why I Made This Site

While I look back on that time of my life with sadness, I also feel profound gratitude. My life is so much better now. I know the thrill of having a dream and making it a reality. I don’t lose my keys. I unapologetically ask for deadlines and clearly-defined expectations. I no longer see failure, setbacks, and forgetfulness as a reflection of my worth, intelligence, or effort. I feel free. I feel whole.

I want that for you. I believe you can get there.

There is a lot of advice online about ADHD. None of it helped me. I had to dig (and dig…and dig…) to find the “real story” on ADHD. I want to save you the time and trouble of finding and digging through resources for ADHD, so that you can get on with your life.

What This Site Will Do For You

This website is a curation of what I’ve learned ADHD, executive functioning, and self-management. I hope that occasionally, every once in a while, there is a tip or trick that makes your life easier.

But more than that, I want you to learn how to trust yourself again, or maybe for the first time.

I believe that you can heal from your past and build the future that you want.

What You Need to Know About ADHD

ADHD is so much more than attention and hyperactivity. It is motivation, energy, overstimulation, and outsized emotional reactions, to name just a few things.

Click here here for info about using this site (but only if you aren’t already overwhelmed. One thing at a time!)

Relevant Blog Entries

If you are recently diagnosed with ADHD and don’t know what to do next, I recommend starting with any of these 10 posts. And “starting” can mean just scanning 1 title!