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Keys to Loving a Partner with ADHD – Part II
Tara and Trevor MacKenzie Tara and Trevor MacKenzie might play together in the MacKenzie Blues Band, but their 13-year marriage is anything but blue. Here, Tara MacKenzie continues to share some tips...
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Got Dopamine? Sex and the ADHD Woman
Greig’s Caves, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, CanadaPhoto Zoë Kessler, 2009 You think you’ve got sex problems? We want too much. We don’t want any. We’re halfway to heaven, a fly walks across the wall and...
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ADHD, Travel, and Social Skills
Navigating northern India, navigating new social skills with ADHD MD. Hasibul Haque Sakib via Compfight If social skills are foreign to adults with untreated ADHD, then imagine what it’s like to have...
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International Women’s Day – A Shout-out to My ADHD Sisters
While enjoying some live funk / R&B music at a local venue last night (with a kick-ass female vocalist fronting the band, I might add), I suggested to my younger companion that we should request a...
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A Note from My Post-Travel ADHD Haze
Zoe on a camel in Rajasthan, India, 2013 So the first day I’m back from India I’m all like flooded with amazing ideas I want to write about. I jot them all down, and I know I’ll be able to rattle off...
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6 Benefits of a Later-in-Life ADHD Diagnosis
Paolo Margari via Compfight Finding the positive side in any situation is something I’m pretty good at. In spite of life’s challenges, I’ve been called “insufferably cheerful” (whatever that means)...
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DSM? What DSM?
What’s happening with the DSM? I haven’t heard a peep lately. Have you? In case you hadn’t heard, the DSM-5, which is the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is...
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Let’s Adopt the Bloggess!
Used with permission from The Bloggess herself. (Thanks, Jenny). Like a lot of women with ADHD, I felt my whole life that I didn’t fit in. It turns out, there are some great fellow female bloggers out...
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ADHD: Stop Chasing the New and Start Embracing the New
Embracing the new with ADHD. Snowdrops in spring. It’s spring. I don’t know about you, but spring has found me starting lots of new projects and activities. I’ve joined a Speechcraft course, hosted by...
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ADHD: It’s Not All Good
It’s spring (aka, roofing season). It’s time to tackle the last major job on my new house (I hope). One contractor suggested it would be cheaper and faster to cover over the old roof tiles. Then...
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Memories, Dreams, ADHD
Discovering A Treasure Trove of ADHD Memory Gold peasap via Compfight I’ve written a lot about ADHD. As an author, my ultimate dream was to write a full-length book about women and ADHD. For...
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Are You the ADHD Tortoise or the ADHD Hare?
Jack Wolf via Compfight Imagine how excited I was when I first learned about the slow food movement. Being as slow in the kitchen as I’ve always been, I’d always thought I had a deficit. When all...
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Spanking Hurts ADHD Kids More Than You Think, Part I
D. Sharon Pruitt via Compfight Recently, I read Parenting a Child With ADHD – Is Spanking Helpful? by ADHD expert Keath Low. Low does a good job of explaining why it’s difficult to parent a child with...
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Spanking Hurts ADHD Kids More Than You Think, Part II
Vinoth Chandar via Compfight In Spanking Hurts ADHD Kids More Than You Think, Part I, we considered the first 2 of 7 critical factors that suggest that spanking may be especially detrimental to ADHD...
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ADHD and Self-Awareness: Polishing the Mirror
Tambako The Jaguar via Compfight Don’t panic! I’m not talking about housework. I’m talking about a Buddhist expression, “polishing your mirror.” It means clearing up your personal inner gunk, so you...
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Happy Bicycle Day! How Far Out of the Box Have You Gone?
Paul Townsend via Compfight Did you know today, April 19 is bicycle day? That sounds like something super-wholesome, doesn’t it? There’s tripping, then there’s tripping Wrong. It’s actually the...
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ADHD: I’m Down the Rabbithole. Again.
Pascal via Compfight Ok. That’s it. I’m down the rabbithole again. The more I learn about ADHD, the more complex and interconnected everything gets. I’m totally overwhelmed by the plethora of...
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How ADHD Hyperfocus is Like Sex
chrisbb@prodigy.net via Compfight Hands up if you know what I’m talking about when I say hyperfocus. I thought so. There’s a general consensus that adults with ADHD hyperfocus. The exception comes...
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Mother’s Day and ADHD – Parenting ADHD Kids
t horizontal.integration via Compfight It appears that my little rant on spanking has struck a mighty chord. In addition to readers and comments here at my blog, I’ve received a lot of input on my...
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ADHD and Procrastination: A Lesson from the Land
Wisteria and MInt – Mother Nature and a lesson on ADHD procrastination I accidentally spent the whole day gardening and landscaping today. As I worked, I thought about ADHD and procrastination. Am I...
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