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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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Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed
Feelings and focus 6Screens and attention 5Remembering to do it 3Shame and stigma 3Bringing the future closer 2Treatment and medication 2What ADHD actually is 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Use your strengths 1Your sense of time 1
How long you have · Five minutes
Five minutes 1Longer 1
When · After a row
Any ordinary day 43Coming and going 8In a change 4Under stress 3After a row 1

How an outburst ends tells you more than how it starts. Give an ADHD storm some room and it often burns itself out. The rage that runs for an hour with the lights out behind the eyes is a different animal, and so is the child who genuinely does not mind what you take away.

Ask the parents to walk you through the last three. What set it off, how long it ran, what stopped it, what the child was like an hour afterwards.…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 2:31