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Category: ADHD Women
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Clarity is Not a Luxury: Neurodivergence and Navigating Organisational Change
Please note – I wrote this post last year If this year hasn’t already been the gift that keeps on giving, I’m in the middle of yet another restructure. Which prompted me cobbling together this blog post from a couple of emails I’ve sent. For many neurodivergent staff, while change is being described as “fluid”,…
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Overwhelm Is Not Laziness
One of the most common misconceptions about ADHD is that we’re lazy; that we can’t be bothered; or when we switch off when things get hard, we’ll get “Why don’t you just try?” This perception, combined with the merest hint of inconsistency in our behaviour, is what is often noticed at work. We’re told we…
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Running on Empty
This is a sort-of-follow-up, either that or companion piece, to my post from earlier this week, Building A Life You Don’t Want To Escape From. We were talking about our general weariness: That we’re so fried by the evening, we’re not actually engaging with anything. Instead we’re all doom-scrolling while watching streaming services, trying to…
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Building a Life You Don’t Want to Escape From
For years, I lived my life burning candles at both ends. The patriachal, capitalist society norms of ‘busy, busy, busy’ is so ingrained in us that we’re shamed when we slow and relax; or heaven forbid, sit down with nothing to do. Don’t believe me? What about the gadgets available to buy to simply keep…
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Masking Your ADHD: The Exhaustion Your Acquaintances Don’t See
If you live with ADHD, or you’re thinking that you ought to get tested, you’ve probably become an expert at one thing without even knowing it – masking. Masking is a self-preservation tool and the art (I use that word loosely) of hiding your ADHD traits so you can appear ‘neurotypical’ enough to blend in,…