Why I Wrote Not Broken: The Book I Wish I’d Had Before My AuDHD Diagnosis
For most of my life, I thought there was something fundamentally wrong with me. I…
How to Avoid Food Waste With ADHD: 9 Practical Tips
If you’re wondering how to avoid food waste with ADHD, the solution isn’t necessarily better…
The Most Creative Ways to Overcome ADHD Paralysis
I ran across a Facebook post by Cherry ADHD asking about the most unhinged tips…
How to Use Google Calendar for ADHD Time Blindness
Time blindness makes life really difficult. When you’re lost in time, you forget appointments, run…
AuDHD Morning Routine: 6 Steps to Build One That Actually Sticks
When you are both autistic and ADHD, building a morning routine may be hard, but…
Neurodivergent Friendship: How to Tell Who’s Really Your Friend
Neurodivergent friendship can feel beautifully simple and wildly complicated at the same time. On good…
Alarms for Time Blindness: Why One Reminder Is Never Enough
If you have an AuDHD brain and one alarm has never been enough to get you out of the door, you’re not failing at something simple. Using alarms for time blindness isn’t about discipline; it’s about supporting transitions your brain can’t track on its own. The real issue is a mismatch between how time is usually explained and how your brain actually experiences it. For a long time, I thought that needing more than one alarm meant I was disorganized, unmotivated, or just bad at mornings. In reality, the problem was never willpower. It was transitions, and being expected to make them instantly, without support.
Flare Calmer vs Loop for Neurodivergent Sound Sensitivity: I Tried Both
If you’re neurodivergent and sensitive to sounds, everyday environments can become exhausting surprisingly quickly. Conversations…
AuDHD Creativity: Why Our Brains Come Alive Through Art
Since I was a little kid, creativity was driven by the small sparks of “otherworldly moments” I was experiencing often. It was a half-second of strange, wonderful feelings that seemed beyond this world. Only as an adult have I learned that some of the other people experienced them too. I wanted to share them with other people, to put them into images and words, no matter how imperfectly. I wanted to breathe life into them, to bring them inside this world. To this day, the highest compliment anyone can pay me on my art is that it made them feel.
15 AuDHD Food Hacks for When Cooking Feels Impossible
AuDHD makes food difficult. When it comes to ADHD food needs, ADHD craves novelty every time, while autism demands the comfort of the safe few familiar meals. ADHD makes it hard to remember to eat – you may lose yourself in hyperfocus, and time blindness lets meal times slip away unnoticed. Autism creates sensory difficulties. Sometimes we are hungry but none of the food seems appealing, so we simply don’t eat. These ADHD food struggles make ADHD symptoms worse, which makes for even more missed meals. Oh, and are you often hangry, too?