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Focus, starting, and ADHD
Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.
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4 practicesTheme · Getting assessed and diagnosed
Approach · ADHD skills
An ADHD diagnosis usually arrives with two extra words attached: which presentation it is, and how severe. Both are descriptions of what gets in your way, not a grade you were awarded.
Inattentive, hyperactive and impulsive, or the two together, and then mild, moderate or severe. Mild means you met the threshold and the effect on…
Teenage memories of this often come with a sting: the year you worked out how much longer everything took you than it seemed to take everybody else.
That is usually why adolescence is the period people can describe in detail. The work got harder, the scaffolding of primary school fell away, and…
There is a difference between low mood you have carried all your life and low mood that grew out of years of working twice as hard for half the result. Both are real, and they need treating in a different order.
If the second describes you, the picture often lifts a fair way once the attention difficulties are being managed and the daily experience of falling…
Home DNA tests turn up relatives nobody expected. If someone is thinking of taking one to fill in a blank family history, it is worth saying out loud that it may hand them more than they asked for.
People find half siblings. Sometimes they find that the story they were told about their birth was not the story. That is a great deal to receive by…